Tsintsabis

settlement Tsintsabis
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Basic data
Population Area Population Density	4000 30 km² 130 inhabitants per km²
State Region Constituency	Namibia Oshikoto Guinas
Establishment date	2020 (as a settlement )
License plate phone code	67
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Tsintsabis is a settlement and administrative center of the constituency Guinas in the region Oshikoto in Namibia . It is located about 65 kilometers northeast of Tsumeb on the Omuramba Owambo . Tsintsabis received official settlement status in August 2020 .

The number of inhabitants is estimated at 4,000 in 2016, five years earlier it was officially assumed to be around 1,500, unofficially 3,000. The settlement has a combined primary and secondary school, at least seven churches and a clinic.

history

Church in Tsintsabis (2007)

Tsintsabis is a 3000 hectare - formerly - commercial farm that was used by South African soldiers as an internment camp for fighters of the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) during the Namibian liberation struggle . Since 1993, mainly members of the San have been resettled in their original settlement areas. For this reason, 80 properties were developed and built with stone houses. At least two slum areas should be located on the edge of this .

Web links

Commons : Tsintsabis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obrien Simasiku: Tsintsabis proclaimed a settlement. In: New Era Live. August 5, 2020, accessed on August 20, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Marx Itamalo: The forgotten settlement of Tsintsabis. In: The Namibian . July 20, 2016, accessed August 20, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Ute Dieckmann, Maarit Thiem, Erik Dirkx et al .: “Scraping the Pot” - San in Namibia Two Decades After Independence . Ed .: Land, Environment and Development Project of the Legal Assistance Center and Desert Research Foundation of Namibia. Windhoek 2014, ISBN 978-99945-61-52-0 , pp. 183 f . (English, download [PDF; 27.0 MB ; accessed on August 19, 2020]).

Coordinates: 18 ° 46 ′  S , 17 ° 42 ′  E