Ongwediva
thumb|Ongwediva residential neighborhood thumb|Queens Hall, Ongwediva fairgrounds on the B1 road (Namibia)|B1 road Ongwediva is a town in the Oshana Region in the north of Namibia. It is the district capital of the Ongwediva electoral constituency. it had 33,777 inhabitants and covered 4,102 hectares of land. Ongwediva has seven churches. Most of the inhabitants speak Oshiwambo.
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- Ongwediva
- Region
- Oshana Region
- Country
- Namibia
- Population
- 24,012
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thumb|Ongwediva residential neighborhood thumb|Queens Hall, Ongwediva fairgrounds on the B1 road (Namibia)|B1 road Ongwediva is a town in the Oshana Region in the north of Namibia. It is the district capital of the Ongwediva electoral constituency. it had 33,777 inhabitants and covered 4,102 hectares of land. Ongwediva has seven churches. Most of the inhabitants speak Oshiwambo.
==History== Ongwediwa started as a Finnish mission station in 1926. A school for male students was built there at the time, focusing on practical skills. It is talked about as an agricultural and industrial school, although the agricultural emphasis soon faded away. The school started in February 1927, and it was a secondary school, which one could attend after completing primary school. Towards the end of the 1920s, the school started to receive subsidies from the South African government, although this was only a modest £100 per year.