When it was built in the 1950s, it was located about 1 km north of the town centre, with only sand and some shacks inhabited by coloured people in between.

Most houses in Vineta originally belonged to white people, who permanently lived inland from the coast, their coastal properties used as holiday homes only.

A neighbourhood called the Swakopmund Waterfront in a certain part of Vineta has been planned since 2002, but due to financial problems, the construction only began in 2007.

The construction would be done by the South African company Safari Developments, the contract worth 400 to 500 million Namibian dollars.

With one exception, the students were all children of the employees of the Finnish Missionary Society, whose parents lived mostly in Ovamboland and the Kavango Region.