Windhoek Township Tour Katutura - Namibia The Windhoek
Municipality developed Katutura in the late 1950s as an
apartheid township. However, before Katutura was developed, most
black Namibians lived in a location west of Windhoek in the area
now known as Hochland Park. When the town council decided to
move the black Namibians from the old location to the new area
of Katutura, there was great opposition to the move. These
objections were both practical and ideological. Naturally there
was a general opposition to the apartheid policies and that the
move was forced. There were also unfair conditions put on the
residents such as they could never own the houses that they were
forced to rent plus the distance to Windhoek Central Business
District (CBD) from Katutura was greater than it had been from
Windhoek West. The original Katutura was much smaller than the
Katutura that exists today. Windhoek's total population is
currently around 200 000 people, about 60% of these people live
in Katutura. There are many suburb