Gochas

Gochas ƙauye ne a yankin Hardap na Namibiya. Ƙauyen yana da mazauna 1,868 a cikin shekarar 2023.

 Tarihi 
Ƙauyen ya kasance babban wurin zama na ǃKharakhoen (Fransman Nama), ƙabilar mutanen Nama,  tun a shekarar 1889. 

Gochas ya kasance wuri mai haske a cikin yakin Herero na 'yan mulkin mallaka a Jamus ta Kudu maso yammacin Afirka. An yi amfani da shi azaman wurin soja da tashar raƙuma a ƙarƙashin mulkin Jamus na Imperial. A cikin watan Janairu 1905 Jamusawa sun ci nasara kan sarkin Nama Simon Kooper a nan. Yaƙin ƙarshe na yaƙin, Yaƙin Seatsub, an yi yaƙi ne a Bechuanaland a cikin watan Maris 1908. An kashe Kyaftin Friedrich von Erckert a mataki, kuma an gina wani abin tunawa a Gochas. 

 Geography 
Gochas yana da nisan  kudu maso gabas na Mariental  da  kudu maso yammacin Stampriet akan hanyar zuwa tashar iyakar Mata Mata zuwa Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.  Ya ta'allaka ne a bakin Kogin Auob  sama da matakin teku. Yankin yana tsakiyar rukunin gonakin daji na Kalahari wanda shanu da tumaki ke kiwo a kai. 

 Alkaluma 
A cikin shekarar 1960, an ba da rahoton yawan jama'a a matsayin fararen fata 205, gaurayawan ƙabilu 108, da kuma baƙi 224. 

 Yanayi 
Gochas yana karɓar matsakaicin  na ruwan sama a kowace shekara. A lokacin fari na shekarar 2010 ya yi ƙasa da  an rubuta.

 Siyasa 
Majalisar ƙauye ne ke mulkin Gochas, wanda aka kafa a shekarar 1958, wanda   yana da kujeru biyar. 

Zaɓen ƙananan hukumomi na shekarar 2015 jam'iyyar SWAPO ta lashe kujeru uku (kuri'u 326). Kujeru ɗaya kowanne ya samu nasara a hannun Congress of Democrats (CoD, kuri'u 96) da Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA, kuri'u 36).  Zaɓen ƙananan hukumomi na shekarar 2020 ya samu nasara ne a hannun sabuwar jam'iyyar LPM wacce ta samu nasara a duk faɗin Hardap. LPM ya samu kuri'u 347 da kujeru uku a majalisar dokokin ƙauyen. SWAPO ta samu kujeru ɗaya kacal (kuri’u 147), haka kuma sabuwar jam’iyyar masu fafutukar neman sauyi (IPC) ta lashe sauran kujera da kuri’u 108. 

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