Hochland Park

Hochland Park was established in the late 1960s at the place where Windhoek's Old Location, a township for black residents, used to be.

[1] It was one of the events leading to the foundation of SWAPO[2] by forcing community leaders from the Ovamboland People's Organization into exile, among them Sam Nujoma,[3] who later became Namibia's founding president.

The Old Location uprising is the reason for the declaration of December 10, Human Rights Day, as a Namibian national holiday.

Today, blacks who participated in the liberation struggle and became economically successful after independence often make a political statement by taking up residence in Hochland Park, the area they had been chased away from by the whites.

Many ministers and high government officials and the inspector-general of the Namibian police today live in Hochland Park.