[5] Omusati Region, to which Tsandi belongs, is a stronghold of Namibia's ruling SWAPO party.

For the 2015 local authority election no opposition party nominated a candidate, and SWAPO won all five seats uncontested.

The Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020, obtained 72 votes and gained the remaining seat.

They chose a place called Tsandi, and a month later the missionary August Hänninen began the construction work at the site.

However, they did not show much interest to the preaching activities, and the local congregation consisted mainly of people who have moved there from Ondonga.

[9] Hänninen soon noticed that conducting divine services and running a school outside, under a local tree, was difficult, so he encouraged his congregation members to build a proper church, built of bricks.

And auxiliary mission was founded in Uukolonkadhi, in the care of an ardent teacher and evangelist from Ongandjera, Abraham Iintamba.