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The State House was designed by the North Korean company Mansudae Overseas Projects and built over a period of 66 months. [4] [5] In September 2002, at the end of his term, Sam Nujoma, the first president of Namibia, had construction begin on the new building, to replace the old State House in the inner city, [6] because both the office space in the old State House and the parking area were ...
She was the only woman among the casualties of the Old Location uprising in Windhoek on 10 December 1959. Since Namibia's independence on 21 March 1990, Mungunda is regarded one of the heroes of the Namibian nation. [1] [2] Mungunda was born in 1932 to migrant labourer Theopoldt Shivute and Emilia Kavezeri, a niece of Hosea Kutako. She had ...
Schools in Windhoek (1 C, 24 P) Sports venues in Windhoek (11 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Windhoek" The following 41 pages are in this category ...
The Windhoek Gymnasium Private School has one of its campuses in Kleine Kuppe. [2] Grove Mall , the largest shopping centre in Namibia [ citation needed ] is located in the Hilltop mixed-use estate in the area, as are several other retail centres.
Aerial view of Heroes´s Acre in 2017. Heroes' Acre is an official war memorial of the Republic of Namibia.Built into the uninhabited hills 10 kilometres (6 mi) south of the city centre of Windhoek, Heroes' Acre opened on 26 August 2002.
Windhoek's Old Location in the 1950s The same skyline in 2011, showing the Old Location Cemetery Museum (lower right corner) and parts of the suburb Pionierspark. The Old Location (or as it was known then the Main Location) was an area segregated for Black residents of Windhoek, the capital of Namibia.
The estate, named Windfields by his wife, is occupied today by the Canadian Film Centre. The park through which Wilket Creek flows behind this parcel of land is known as Windfields Park . In the late forties, Taylor's business partner George Montegu Black, Jr (father of Conrad Black ) moved into the area and built a large mansion on Park Lane ...
Old Toronto refers to the City of Toronto and its limits from 1967 to 1997. It is sometimes referred to as the "South" or "Central" district, and includes the downtown core. Some of these names such as "The Fashion District" are (or were) used as marketing for the areas or by BIAs; this area is actually called "King-Spadina" by locals.