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"City of Windhoek Cooperations and Partnerships" (PDF). City of Windhoek. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2012; Cloete, Luqman (3 August 2011). "Oranjemund proclaimed as town after long battle". The Namibian. Archived from the original on 31 May 2012; Shaanika, Helvy (7 September 2011).
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.
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.
Windhoek inner city area. Windhoek Central Business District (short: Windhoek Central) is the inner city area of Windhoek, capital of Namibia.It is surrounded by the suburbs of Windhoek West and Hochland Park in the west, Windhoek-North in the north, Eros, Klein-Windhoek, Luxushügel and Auasblick in the east, and Suiderhof and Southern Industrial in the south.
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.
In 2008, it was renamed after John Pandeni, a member of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) and its militant wing, the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN). Pandeni was the first regional councillor for the former Soweto constituency and the first governor of Khomas. [ 1 ]