Oniipa

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city
Oniipa
Onethindi (historical)
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Makalani palm (Hyphaene petersiana) in Oniipa
Makalani palm ( Hyphaene petersiana ) in Oniipa
motto Innovation, hardwork, prosperity (innovation, hard work, prosperity)
Basic data
Population
Area
Population Density 		6535 (2011)
State
Region
Constituency 		Namibia
Oshikoto
Oniipa
Establishment date (2015)
License plate
phone code
Website oniipatc.org.na
Map of Oniipa in Namibia
Political data

Mayor :

Chief Executive Officer :

Last election: 2015

Next election: 2020

City administration address:
Geographical data

Geographical coordinates : 17/54/43 / S, 16/2/28 / E

Height : 1100  m

Oniipa , formerly Onethindi , is a town and the administrative seat of the constituency of the same name in the Oshikoto region in northern Namibia . Oniipa is located on the B1 national road only ten kilometers southeast of Ondangwa and a good 300 kilometers northwest of Tsumeb . In 2011 the place had 6535 inhabitants.

Oniipa was elevated to city status in April 2015 with Onethindi as a suburb . It is the third city in the Oshikoto region, after Tsumeb and Omuthiya .

Oniipa is the seat of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (ELCIN) . There has been a hospital in Oniipa since 1911, which was the first in the former Owamboland, and a medicine museum has been affiliated there since 2013 (Onandjokwe Medical Museum).

Local politics

In the 2015 local elections , no other party besides SWAPO ran . This received all seven seats in the local council.

Special

Oniipa was the target of the first bomb attack in what was then Ovamboland on November 19, 1980 . A print shop across from the hospital was completely destroyed. The perpetrators were never found, but it is believed that the South African army was behind the attack because the printing plant produced an independent newspaper.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia. Republic of Namibia, April 30, 2015, No. 5721, Note 59, p. 5
  2. ^ Oshikoto to get third town. Namibian Sun, November 21, 2014 ( December 24, 2014 memento in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved December 20, 2014
  3. ↑ Official election results of the regional and local elections 2015, ECN, December 4, 2015 ( Memento of December 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 150 kB)
  4. ↑ Accessed on September 5, 2016

Coordinates: 17 ° 55 ′  S , 16 ° 2 ′  E