Dibasen Junior Secondary School is a school in Okombahe

Okombahe

Okombahe is a settlement in Erongo Region, Namibia. It is regarded as the capital of the ǂNûkhoen tribe; the annual King's Festival is held at the town's Gaob Memorial Stadium. Dibasen Junior Secondary School is situated in the village....

, 60 km west of Omaruru in the Erongo Region

Erongo Region

Erongo is one of the 13 regions of Namibia. It comprises the Swakopmund magisterial district up to the Ugab River and includes Walvis Bay, Omaruru and Karibib magisterial districts. This region is named after Erongo mountain, a well known landmark in Namibia and in this area...

 of central 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 was founded in 1982 and has 16 teachers and about 360 learners in grades 7 to 9.

The school was the target of several arson

Arson

Arson is the crime of intentionally or maliciously setting fire to structures or wildland areas. It may be distinguished from other causes such as spontaneous combustion and natural wildfires...

 attacks at the time of Namibia's transition into independence

Namibian War of Independence

See also South African Border War.The Namibian War of Independence, also known as the South African Border War, which lasted from 1966 to 1988, was a guerrilla war, which the nationalist South-West Africa People's Organization and others, fought against the apartheid government in South...

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.