Dibasen Junior Secondary School is a school in Okombahe, 60 km west of Omaruru in the Erongo Region of central Namibia.[1] It was founded in 1982[2] and has 16 teachers and about 360 learners in grades 7 to 9.[3]

The school was the target of several arson attacks at the time of Namibia's transition into independence in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As a result of those politically motivated attacks, student numbers went down from 900 to 200. During an attempt to rebuild the school the remaining hostel blocks burned down in 2005.[1] As of 2016 the ruins have neither been removed not rebuilt.[4]

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  1. 1 2 Maletzky, Christof (14 July 2005). "Dibasen School hostel burns down". The Namibian.
  2. Maletzky, Christof (7 October 2003). "Dibasen School Marks 21 Years With Rebuilding Drive". The Namibian. via allafrica.com.
  3. "Erongo Schools". Association of Regional Councils in the Republic of Namibia. Archived from the original on 21 September 2007. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
  4. Hartmann, Adam (27 May 2016). "History catches up with the future". The Namibian. pp. 6–7.


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