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4 unusual facts about Ondangwa


Ondangwa

There are several schools in the town, among them Andimba Toivo ya Toivo Senior Secondary School.

Ondangwa is the district capital of the Ondangwa electoral constituency.

Ondangwa Urban

The administrative centre of Ondangwa Urban is the town of Ondangwa.

Operation Boswilger

PLAN insurgents entered South West Africa damaging a bridge between Epali and Ondangwa, sabotaging telephone poles, mortaring the Eenhana base and a bomb was detonated at the Ongwediva Teachers Training College.


1 Parachute Battalion

The two platoons withdrew in February/March (not sure anymore)Operation Savannah during the Angolan Civil War In July of 1975 when 1 string of 1 Parachute Battalion were flown to Ondangwa and travel by Unimog to Ruancana on the northern border of SWA at Ruacana and Santa Clara in Angola to relieve two Portuguese communities trapped by the MPLA.

Ondangwa Urban

Ondangwa Urban is an electoral constituency in the Oshana Region of Namibia.

The Dogg

Morocky began his formal education at Onayena Primary School situated in Onayena, a village in east Ondangwa, where he has been living since returning from exile in Zambia, in 1989.

Tsumeb

The junction for the Ondangwa line is located at the "wrong end" of Tsumeb railway station, leaving it a dead end, though a second triangle is provided for through trains to bypass the station.


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