Swakopmund - Administrative Divisions

Administrative Divisions

There are the following districts and suburbs in Swakopmund:

• Town Centre
• Vineta
• Mile 4
• Vogelstrand
• Waterfront
• Mondesa
• Tamariskia
• Democratic Resettlement Community
  • The Democratic Resettlement Community is an informal settlement in Swakopmund. It was founded in 2001 as temporary housing for people waiting for subsidized housing in the city.

Most inhabitants of the town live in the suburbs of Vineta, Tamariskia, Mondesa and Vogelstrand. Both black and white people, mostly well-to-do, live in Vineta. Tamariskia was originally a neighbourhood for the coloured people, built in the early 1970s, to replace the shacks the coloureds earlier had between the town centre and Vineta. Mondesa existed already in the 1960s, and it was a neighbourhood for the black people, and it was a considerable distance from the town centre in the early days.