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Tsandi
Summary
Tsandi (Oshiwambo: that which is at the center) is a village in the Omusati Region of northern Namibia and the district capital of the Tsandi electoral constituency. It is a former mission station of the Finnish Missionary Society. It is situated on the main road MR123 (Outapi - Tsandi - Okahao).
Tsandi is the residential place of the Uukwaluudhi royal homestead. It is also the trade center for the whole constituency and one of the oldest villages in the Uukwaluudhi kingdom. Tsandi Lodge is out of town in the direction of Outapi.
Tsandi is governed by a village council that has five seats. Omusati Region, to which Tsandi belongs, is a stronghold of Namibia's ruling SWAPO party. For the 2015 local authority election no opposition party nominated a candidate, and SWAPO won all five seats uncontested.
SWAPO also won the 2020 local authority election. It obtained 261 votes and gained four seats. The Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020, obtained 72 votes and gained the remaining seat.
The Finnish missionaries, who arrived in Ovamboland in 1870, visited the west of the area towards the end of the following year, visiting e.g. Uukwaluudhi, but the visit to that tribe did not have any tangible results at the time.
In 1909, the leadership of the Finnish Missionary Society in Finland considered that missionary work should be begun also in the west of Ovamboland, and in particular among the Uukwaluudhi tribe. The local head of the mission, Martti Rautanen, together with some of his colleagues, went in July and August 1909 to Uukwaluudhi to select a site for a new mission station. They chose a place called Tsandi, and a month later the missionary August Hänninen began the construction work at the site.
The Finns came to the site at the invitation of King Iita, but he died already at the end of the same year. However, his successor Mwala Nashilongo was also friendly with the Finns, and likewise his people, too. They were not suspicious of the Finns, and the locals turned to them when they were ill.
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