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Windhoek's historic Turnhalle building in which the conference was held. Today it houses the SADC tribunal court. The Turnhalle Constitutional Conference was a conference held in Windhoek between 1975 and 1977, tasked with the development of a constitution for a self-governed South West Africa ( Namibia ) under South African control.
Windhoek's city council has plans to dramatically expand the city's boundaries such that the town area will cover 5,133.4 km 2 (1,982.0 sq mi). Windhoek would become the third-largest city in the world by area, [ citation needed ] after Tianjin and Istanbul , although its population density is only 63 inhabitants per square kilometre.
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This constituency is inside the city of Windhoek in the formerly all-Black suburb of Katutura. It had a population of 15,121 in 2011, up from 13,865 in 2001. [2] As of 2020, it has 14,758 registered voters. [3]
Media Institute of Southern Africa headquartered in Windhoek. [20] 1994 Polytechnic of Namibia founded. National Library of Namibia headquartered in Windhoek. 1995 May: Miss Universe 1995 beauty pageant held in city. Quba-Mosque (Windhoek) built. Windhoek Country Club Resort in business.
As of 2015 Namibia has 18 villages, each of them governed by a village council of up to five seats. Village councils are elected locally and have the authority to set up facilities like water, sewerage and cemeteries without the approval of the Minister of Urban and Rural Development.
Since 1990, there have been a small number of places in Namibia which have been renamed, mainly for political, cultural, or linguistic reasons. Some names have been changed to remove colonial or apartheid references, often reverting to their original native language names.
NOC is a privately owned cancer treatment, rehabilitation and research center, owned by Spitz Healthcare Investments, a Windhoek-based healthcare investment fund. The centre began serving the public with laboratory, pharmacy, radiation, chemotherapy, and oncology rehabilitative services in 2015.