Names Called for Interview NJOMBE at WANGING’OMBE District Council on 19 – 20th June, 2020

MAJINA YA WALIOITWA KWENYE USAILI HALMASHAURI YA WILAYA WANGING’OMBE

Njombe Region is one of the 31 administrative regions of Tanzania. It was established in March 2012, from the Iringa Region as an independent region.The region’s capital is Njombe town. The newly established Njombe region is an upcoming tourism attractive area, ideal for domestic and international visits in the southern highlands of Tanzania.

The name Njombe originated from a name of a tree species called ‘Mdzombe’ for singular and Mazdombe for plural which then dominant in one of its localities known as Mdandu. And it was in Mdandu where the Germans chose to build an administrative and defence block; the Boma.

Wanging’ombe (Wangi Ngombe) is a town and ward in Wanging’ombe District in the Njombe Region of the Tanzanian Southern Highlands. As of 2002, the population of the ward was 18,545.

In 2012 it was incorporated in the new eponymous district of the new Njombe Region. Prior to that it was part of the old Njombe District in the Iringa Region.