Oshakati

Oshakati is a metropolis of 37,000 inhabitants in the Oshana Region of Namibia. It is the local capital and became formally founded in July 1966. The city become used as a base of operations by using the South African Defence Force during the South African Border War. In Oshiwambo, the language of the Ovambo, the metropolis's name way "that that's in among", although some accept as true with that the call become used to consult the broadcast tower, the tallest structure downtown and in Namibia. Oshakati is one in all Namibia's largest towns and it's far located close to the B1, Namibia's fundamental dual carriageway, which stretches from South Africa thru the capital Windhoek and on to the Angolan border.

The Oshakati town is within the Kwambi traditional authority. In February 1988, a bomb blast occurred in Oshakati on the First National Bank, killing 27 humans and badly injuring nearly 30 others, maximum of them nurses and teachers. No one changed into ever formally convicted of the bombing and the difficulty was dropped upon independence in 1990 in favour of countrywide reconciliation.