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 Map of the B15. | ||||
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| Length | 239 km (149 mi) | |||
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| South end |  B1 at Tsumeb | |||
| North end |  B15 at Katwitwi | |||
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The B15 is a national road in Namibia, running since 2013 [1] from Tsumeb to Katwitwi. The road cost 910 million NAD. Construction has been carried out in three phases since 2009 by the Namibian Roads Contractor Company (RCC) and the China Henan International Cooperation Group.
Oshikoto is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, named after Lake Otjikoto. Its capital is Omuthiya. The city of Tsumeb, Otjikoto's capital until 2008, and the towns of Omuthiya and Oniipa are also situated in this region.
Oshana is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, its capital is Oshakati. The towns of Oshakati, Ongwediva and Ondangwa, all situated with this region, form an urban cluster with the second largest population concentration in Namibia after the capital Windhoek.
Dioptase is an intense emerald-green to bluish-green copper cyclosilicate mineral. It is transparent to translucent. Its luster is vitreous to sub-adamantine. Its formula is Cu6Si6O18·6H2O (also reported as CuSiO2(OH)2). It has a hardness of 5, the same as tooth enamel. Its specific gravity is 3.28–3.35, and it has two perfect and one very good cleavage directions. Additionally, dioptase is very fragile, and specimens must be handled with great care. It is a trigonal mineral, forming 6-sided crystals that are terminated by rhombohedra.
Tsumeb is a city of 15,000 inhabitants and the largest town in Oshikoto region in northern Namibia. Tsumeb is the "gateway to the north" of Namibia. It is the closest town to the Etosha National Park. Tsumeb used to be the regional capital of Oshikoto until 2008 when Omuthiya was proclaimed a town and the new capital. The area around Tsumeb forms its own electoral constituency and has a population of 44,113. The town is the site of a deep mine, that in its heyday was known simply as "The Tsumeb Mine" but has since been renamed the Ongopolo Mine.
The Walvis Bay-Ndola-Lubumbashi Development Road opened in 1999 runs from Rundu, in north eastern Namibia, along the Caprivi Strip as the B8 road to Katima Mulilo on the Zambezi River, which forms the border between Namibia and Zambia. The Katima Mulilo Bridge spans the river to the Zambian town of Sesheke from where a recently upgraded paved road runs to Livingstone joining the main north-south highway to Lusaka, connecting onwards to the Copperbelt.
TransNamib is the railway State-owned enterprise of Namibia. Organised as a holding company, it provides freight by rail and road as well as passenger services. Its administration is located in Windhoek.
The Namibia Premier League (NPL), also known as MTC Namibia Premier League due to sponsorship reasons, was the highest level of domestic association football in Namibia. The league was established in 1990 and was trimmed to 12 teams from the traditional 16 in 2005. It was folded in 2020 after ongoing problems with the Namibia Football Association, which finally ended the relationship. Meanwhile, the NFA founded the Namibia Football Premier League.
The Namibia FA Cup, officially Bidvest Namibia Cup, is an association football tournament for Namibian clubs.
Tsumeb railway station is a station located in the mining town of Tsumeb in northeastern Namibia.
Mohammed Ouseb is a Namibian footballer. He previously played for South Africa's Premier Soccer League clubs Kaizer Chiefs, Moroka Swallows and Norway's FC Lyn Oslo as well as Chief Santos in his home country. He played for the Namibia national football team at the 1998 African Cup of Nations.
Mining is the biggest contributor to Namibia's economy in terms of revenue. It accounts for 25% of the country's income. Its contribution to the gross domestic product is also very important and makes it one of the largest economic sectors of the country. Namibia produces diamonds, uranium, copper, magnesium, zinc, silver, gold, lead, semi-precious stones and industrial minerals. The majority of revenue comes from diamond mining. In 2014, Namibia was the fourth-largest exporter of non-fuel minerals in Africa.
St. Barbara Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church in downtown Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia. Built in 1914, the church is dedicated to Saint Barbara, the patron saint of mine workers. Tsumeb's economy is based on mining. In the 2000s, the Church dominated the view of downtown Tsumeb. It was built by the German South-West African colonial authorities. From the church's founding in 1914 until 1927, it functioned as the only operating church in the mining town.
The B1 is a national highway of Namibia, and is the country's longest and most significant road, running the length of the country from south to north. It connects Noordoewer in the south on the South African border with Oshikango in the north on the Angolan border via Namibia's capital city Windhoek.
C39 is an untarred road in central Namibia. It is 460 kilometres long and connects Torra Bay to Otavi. At Otavi the road connects with the B1 to Tsumeb and Windhoek and the B8 to Rundu.
Petrus Tileinge Damaseb is a Namibian judge of the High Court of Namibia.
The Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology (NIMT) is a technical vocational training institute in Arandis, Namibia, established in 1991. It had 4,000 students and 270 staff in 2017, Eckhart Mueller was its executive director until he was murdered with his deputy on 15 April 2019. NIMT offers courses in mining, manufacturing and engineering. In 2007, De Beers donated N$2.1 million to open a second northern campus and in November of that year a campus was opened in Tsumeb. NIMT also operates a campus in Keetmanshoop in southern Namibia.
Rail service in Namibia is provided by TransNamib. Namibias rail network consists of 2,687 route-km of tracks (2017).
Otavi railway station is located in the mining town of Otavi in north central Otjozondjupa Region Namibia.
Katwitwi is a border crossing in the Kavango West region in the north of Namibia, approximately 35 km northwest of the town of Nkurenkuru. The settlement was granted in 2016 and is located on the left bank of the Okavango River at the border to Angola. The border crossing was connected to Tsumeb by the national road B15 in December 2013.
The B11 is a national road in Namibia, running since 2013 from the B10 near Nkurenkuru to Katwitwi. The road, together with the B10 and B15 from Tsumeb, cost 910 million NAD. Construction has been carried out in three phases since 2009 by the Namibian Roads Contractor Company (RCC) and the China Henan International Cooperation Group.
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