A. Shipena Secondary School is a secondary school in

Windhoek Windhoek (, , ) is the capital and largest city of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level, almost exactly at the country's geographical centre. The population of Windhoek in 202 ...

, the capital of Namibia. It is a government school situated in the Soweto area of the

Katutura Katutura (Otjiherero for ''The place where people do not want to live'') is a township of Windhoek, Khomas Region, Namibia. Katutura was created in 1961 following the forced removal of Windhoek's black population from the Old Location, which a ...

suburb, offering school grades 8–12. it had 1,200 students. The school is named after Ananias Shipena.

History

A. Shipena Secondary School was founded in 1985 with about 700 pupils and 16 teachers. The following year on October 16, 1986, at 04:10 in the early morning the school was hit by a bomb on what was supposed to be the day it held its first prize giving ceremony to reward students who did well academically and in sports. Nobody was injured but the school's administration block was severely damaged, and the event had to be cancelled. In February 1987, the school received its first computer which was bought and put up for bids by a local radio programme. A. Shipena made the winning bid of N$1900,00 for a computer that cost N$35000,00. The current principal of the school is Moses Haufiku.

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