Ondangwa
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Ondangwa or Ondangua, is a small town in the far north of Namibia, about 80 km from the Angolan border, situated in the Oshana region along the Main Road, B1. Ondangwa means "the end of the Ondonga area", one of the kingdoms of the area.
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[edit] Overview
Outside the town, in Nakambale, you can find a house built in the 1870s by Martti Rautanen, the oldest in the region. Nowadays it is turned to a museum showing the history of the missionaries as well as of the Ovambos, the local people.
Many local authorities for the Oshana and Oshikoto regions are placed in the town, e g the Ministry of Education and police. The hospital is placed in the nearby town Oniipa.
Local business includes food, clothes, furniture, building equipment, car repair, banks, post office, pharmacies, private doctors.
There are several schools in the town, among them Andimba Toivo ya Toivo Senior Secondary School. The most well-known football team is KK Palace.
Rössing Foundation, Kayec and Cosdec are the three vocational skills schools training young people in building maintenance, sewing, cooking, IT etc.
At the open market in the very heart of Ondangwa you can buy local food such as meat, beans, millet flour, spinach as well as fruit, vegetables and traditional clothes.
[edit] Transport
In 2001, planning started on a railway line to link Tsumeb with Ondangwa, with extensions to Angola planned to follow. The rail line had its first official train on 11 May 2006 and now travels once a week back and forth between Windhoek and Ondangwa.
The town shares an airport with Oshakati.
[edit] Adjacent station(s)
- (south) - Tsumeb
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