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Oshakati

Oshakati has many faces. There is the 'town', the former South Africa militarily base, where government employees, expatriates and the successful live in detached houses set in leafy gardens close to the video shop, private schools and public library. There are the various 'locations' where shanty-type dwelling of corrugated iron and scrap metal are dotted with NGO and municipally built public lavatories and stand pipes. In between these extremes are those with housing and services of a basic standard, mostly lowly government workers of some kind. The commercial centre of Oshakati and the north happens where the high street banks and the open market, Omatala, face each other across the dusty main road. The University of Namibia has its Northern Campus in town, and you will notice a major influence of municipal buildings and services.

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