Tandai, Honiara


Tandai is a suburb of Honiara, in the Solomon Islands, located west of the main center on the Tandai Highway. Tandai is in the Honiara City Council ward of Nggosi. Tandai is east of White River and west of Rove.

RAMSI

The former RAMSI headquarters was located at Leilei in Tandai.

Land disputes

On Friday 26 June 2009, the Solomon Islands Parliament passed a private member's motion calling on the government to address land management and administration issues in Honiara. The motion was moved by the leader of the official independent group, Isaac Inoke Tosika, the member for West Honiara. The motion sought to direct the government to urgently address the crisis in the management and administration of land in Honiara. This included providing resources and technical assistance to the Ministry of Lands to address land management issues, such as the need to acquire and subdivide undeveloped Fixed Term Estates such as those in Tandai. The government was also instructed to, where appropriate, make this assistance available to citizens who have had long-term residency on those lands.
Squatter settlements in the Tandai area were caused by people who had settled on government land under temporary occupancy leases and were evicted after the land was then allocated to foreign companies.
Tandai land-owning tribes and the Honiara City Council have engaged in a boundary consultation process to address the illegal Honiara City Boundary expansion
By the end of the twentieth century, much urban growth was taking place in Tandai, causing planning problems related to the provision of services and related issues, and also issues of access to land. These land issues became even more central during the ethnic tension and resulted in the evacuation of some of these areas in this period, although in many cases agreements had been reached with traditional land owners. The urban area of Tandai more than tripled over the decade with an annual growth rate of 12.8 percent.

Churches

  • Bishop's Dale Church of Melanesia, the Anglican church was the site of election rallies in 2004.
  • Assembly of God Christian Life Center, was built in 1986 and is the AoG headquarters for Honiara with an estimated 100 members.

Villages

  • Lower Tasahe
  • Rifle Range
  • Tavioa Ridge

Tourism

  • Tropicana Motel
  • Tandai motel

Oxfam

The Oxfam building is located in Tandai, which works to strengthen the community.

Utilities

The Tangai area has one of the lowest proportions of households with piped water, although efforts are underway to extend this supply.