Retired teacher Isaskar Taurob won the controversial Dâure Daman Traditional Authority chieftainship election at Uis in the Erongo Region.
Taurob garnered 403 votes, while Efraim Goseb and Dawid Areseb received 6 and 1 votes, respectively.
Taurob was a Khoekhoegowab teacher for 30 years, since 1987, and held various leadership positions, including in the farmers' union and village council.
"We all know that Sankwasa tasked us earlier this year to go back and rectify what we have done wrong. We were tasked to appoint a chief, and it is with that that the Dâure Daman people nominated and asked me to stand for the election. I also want to acknowledge the elders and community who had faith in me."
The election held on Tuesday continued despite confusion surrounding the legitimacy of the nomination process for the chieftainship.
The one-day election became necessary after Urban and Rural Development Minister James Sankwasa declared in June that the chieftaincy of Zacharias Seibeb was not procedurally correct.
The Nomination Programme Campaigner for the election, Stanislaus Napuka, said the elders' council met on 13 June to carry out the minister's recommendation of redoing the whole succession of the chieftainship.
Napuka explained that the elders called a meeting on 28 June at Uis, where the community, including the youth, was invited.
According to Napuka, Chief Seibeb and his team failed to attend the meeting.
The elders, Napuka said, decided to nominate candidates for the election and further resolved that a committee be established to spread the news to areas surrounding Uis.
Napuka added that a series of meetings followed, and a combined letter from the elders and traditional authority councillors was written and sent to Minister Sankwasa, notifying the ministry that the election would take place on 12 August.
"As I ask you now, there is no answer to what clause or what article of customary law was not followed. Nobody can answer. What are these people crying for? This guy – we have fired him. Even the honourable minister has fired him; he is no more the chief, but he is appointing people. How?"