Mix camp (also: Berghoff settlement) is an

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in the greater

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area in central

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. It is located north of the capital

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and in 2007 was inhabited by approximately 3,000 people. By 2021 it had grown to 1,454 households. Mix camp belongs to the

Windhoek Rural Windhoek Rural is a constituency in the Khomas Region of Namibia. Its district capital is the settlement of Groot Aub. It had a population of 22,254 in 2011, up from 20,212 in 2001. , it has 13,625 registered voters. Windhoek Rural contains al ...

electoral

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. Mix camp is named after

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Heiner Mix who allowed people to settle on his plot in the 1980s. After Mix' death in 1999 the settlement mushroomed because there was no landlord. In 2006 a lengthy legal and political battle started after a company owned by Secretary to Namibian Cabinet

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bought the plot and wanted the residents to leave. Mix residents in turn requested the

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to expropriate the land. In November 2010, two weeks before the regional elections, the government acquired the land and promised to develop the area. In the early 2020s plans to formalize and develop the settlement were made public. Among the planned improvements are the provision of water and sanitation and the establishment of a clinic and a police station.

References

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