Epinga is a village in Ohangwena Region

Ohangwena Region

Ohangwena is one of the thirteen regions of Namibia. The northern and western parts of the region are the most densely populated of this essentially subsistence agricultural region in which small scale mahangu cultivation and the keeping of cattle form the predominant activities...

, Namibia

Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...

. It belongs to the Omundaungilo electoral constituency

Omundaungilo Constituency

Omundaungilo is a constituency in the Ohangwena Region of Namibia, on the border to Angola. It has 8,085 inhabitants.- References :...

 and is part of the former Ovamboland

Ovamboland

Ovamboland was the name given by English-speaking visitors to the land occupied by the Ovambo people in what is now northern Namibia and southern Angola...

 bantustan

Bantustan

A bantustan was a territory set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South West Africa , as part of the policy of apartheid...

. Notable residents include military commanders Julius Shaambeni Shilongo Mnyika

Julius Shaambeni Shilongo Mnyika

Julius Shaambeni Shilongo Mnyika was a Namibian guerrilla with the South West African Liberation Army , forerunner to the People's Liberation Army of Namibia .-Life:...

 and Peter Mweshihange

Peter Mweshihange

Peter Mweshihange was a Namibian freedom fighter and guerrilla general, and after Namibian independence politician and diplomat...

. Artist John Muafangejo spent his teenage years at the village's Anglican

Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a tradition within Christianity comprising churches with historical connections to the Church of England or similar beliefs, worship and church structures. The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 that means the English...

 missionary station.

On 30 January, 1972, it was the site of the murder of four worshippers of St. Luke's Church by South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

n authorities, witnessed by Bishop

Bishop

A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

 Colin Winter

Colin Winter

Colin O'Brien Winter , was an Anglican bishop of Damaraland, a diocese of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa coextensive with the territory of Namibia during the apartheid era.-Early life and career:Born in England in Stoke-on-Trent, Winter was educated at Loughborough College, Oxford...

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