Name-sake to finally shed Hitler name

A politician called Adolf Hitler has been re-elected for the fifth time in a row – and is finally changing his name. The 59-year-old member of the South West Africa People's Organisation (Swapo) has represented Ompundja in the Oshana region since 2004, and was victorious in his local elections once more on Wednesday. A respected anti-apartheid campaigner, he has found himself having to explain his name for years and has stressed he has no link to the Nazi leader. Local newspaper The Namibian reported earlier this week he has now removed the middle name ‘Hitler’ from his identity document, so he is now just Adolf Uunona. Shortly before the 2025 election, he told the paper that he wants to be referred to as ‘Adolf Uunona’ in the future, concerned that being referred to as Adolf Hitler was creating an image problem, despite having comfortably won previous elections.

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