the OTA Secretary-General, In April 2022, Professor Dr Mutjinde Katjiua took Chief Kapuuo to court on an urgent basis as per statutory law, but he could not prove in court that he was indeed the Paramount Chief. On the 12th of April 2022, Judge Oosthuizen J established that Dr. Mutjinde Katjiua lacks the locus standi to have brought the application under the Ovaherero Traditional Authority - Case number: HC-MD-CIV-MOT-GEN-2022/00126 However, the Chairperson of the Chiefs Council and Senate, Senior Councilor Vipuira Kapuuo, who claimed the position of automatic Acting Paramount Chief as per customary law filed a lawsuit seeking to ascertain his role and powers under customary law, tradition and protocols. The case is before court (current Feb/March 2023), In the meantime Kapuuo convened an elective Senate to elect a new paramount chief, and at this senate meeting, Dr. Hoze Riruako emerged victorious as the new Paramount Chief of the great Ovaherero Nation. Dr. Riruako is a nephew of Chief Hosea Kutako and Chief Dr Kuaima Riruako. As it stands there are two Paramount Chiefs in the Ovaherero Traditional Authority Paramount Chiefs of the Herero The genealogy of the Paramount Chiefs of the Herero is: The position is vacant and in dispute, and so far, no formal gazetting has been done by the government of the Republic of Namibia through the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development on the paramount chief of the Ovaherero Traditional Authority. Potential candidates are Dr. Hoze Riruako and Dr. Mutjinde Katjiua. On the 12th of April 2022, Judge Oosthuizen J established that Dr. Mutjinde Katjiua lacks the locus standi to have brought the application under the Ovaherero Traditional Authority - Case number: HC-MD-CIV-MOT-GEN-2022/00126 2022/23 - Chairperson of the Chiefs Council has always been the acting Paramount Chief, being the most senior of the two senior headmen. in terms of Ovaherero customary law and protocols, the Chairman of the Chief's Council becomes the acting Paramount Chief, whenever the Paramount Chief passes away or is otherwise infirm, and until a successor Paramount Chief is democratically elected by the representatives of all the clans. After passing on of Paramount Chief Advocate Vekuii Rukoro. The Chairperson called on a Chiefs Council meeting at Okandjira on April 7, 2022, and after the tombstone unveiling of the late Paramount Chief, the Chairperson called on another Chiefs Council meeting at Ozombuzovindimba, Otjinene, on September 30, 2022, and three candidates for the position