House of the first local administrator
| Home of the first local manager House of the first Native Commissioner of Kavango |
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National monument in Namibia 
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| Monument type | Memorial place : building | |
| location | Rundu | |
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| Emergence | 1909 | |
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Recognized by the National Heritage Council |
December 1, 2011 | |
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| Website | NHC Namibia | |
The home of the first local manager ( English House of the first Native Commissioner of Kavango ) is a historic administration building in the Namibian town of Rundu in the north of the country.
It has been a Namibian National Monument since December 1st, 2011 .
The building consists of two rooms that were used as offices for recruiting migrant workers for mines in the South African Republic . It also served as the seat of the first local administrator of the Kavango and then as a border crossing between the traditional administrations of the Mbunza and Sambyu .
In modern times it served as the headquarters of the Rundu Leisure Club ( Afrikaans Rundu Ontspannings Klub ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 155/2011 House of the first Native Commissioner of Kavango. National Heritage Council. Retrieved April 3, 2020.