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Khauxas
Khauxas is a small settlement in the Hardap Region of central Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea .... It is situated 45 km from Rehoboth and belongs to the Rehoboth Rural electoral constituency. Khauxas consists of 30 households with about 80 inhabitants. The village was electrified in 2011. It is home to a church and a school, the Petrus Vries Primary School. References Populated places in the Hardap Region {{Namibia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rehoboth Rural
Rehoboth Rural is a constituency in the Hardap region of Namibia. It had a population of 7,288 in 2011, down from 7,524 in 2001. Among the settlements in Rehoboth Rural are Klein Aub, Khauxas, and Schlip. , the constituency had 4,701 registered voters. Politics Regional elections The 2015 regional elections were won by Riaan Charles McNab of SWAPO with 1,113 votes. Petrus Johannes Mouton of the United People's Movement (UPM) came second with 389 votes, followed by Norbet Ralph Ludwig (RDP, 202 votes) and Sameul Benjamin de Groot (DTA, 141 votes). The 2020 regional election was narrowly won by Gershon Dausab of the Landless People's Movement (LPM, a new party registered in 2018). He obtained 935 votes. The sitting councillor McNab (SWAPO) came second with 745 votes. Presidential elections 2009 In the 2009 presidential elections, 2,512 residents cast a ballot. Katuutire Kaura of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) won the constituency with 1,114 total votes (44.3%). Behi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardap Region
Hardap is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, its capital is Mariental. Hardap contains the municipality of Mariental, the towns Rehoboth and Aranos, and the self-governed villages Gibeon, Gochas, Kalkrand, Stampriet and Maltahöhe. It is home to the Hardap Dam. Hardap stretches the entire width of Namibia, from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to Namibia's eastern national border. In the northeast, it borders the Kgalagadi District of Botswana, and in the southeast, it borders the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Domestically, it borders the following regions: *Erongo – northwest *Khomas – north central *Omaheke – northeast * ǁKaras – south Politics As of 2020, Hardap had 52,534 registered voters. The region comprises eight political constituencies: * Gibeon * Mariental Rural * Mariental Urban * Rehoboth Rural * Rehoboth Urban East * Rehoboth Urban West * Aranos (created in 2013) * Daweb (created in 2013) As in all other regions, SWAPO was by far the st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. Although Kazungula, it does not border Zimbabwe, less than 200 metres (660 feet) of the Botswanan right bank of the Zambezi, Zambezi River separates the two countries. Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek. Namibia is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU) and the Commonwealth of Nations. The driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, Namibia has been inhabited since pre-historic times by the San people, San, Damara people, Damara and Nama people. Around the 14th century, immigration, immigrating Bantu peoples arrived as part of the Bantu expansion. Since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rehoboth, Namibia
Rehoboth is a town in central Namibia just north of the Tropic of Capricorn. Located 90 kilometres (55 miles) south of the Namibian capital Windhoek, Rehoboth lies on a high elevation plateau with several natural hot-water springs. It receives sparse mean annual rainfall of , although in the 2010/2011 rainy season a record were measured. In 2005, it had a population of 21,378 later increased to 28,843 in 2011, according to the 2011 Namibian Population and Housing Census. Rehoboth is intersected from north to south by the national road B1, which also serves as the border of the two electoral constituencies in the town, Rehoboth Urban West and Rehoboth Urban East. Rehoboth is the core territory of the Baster community which still lives according to their ''Paternal Laws'' which were enacted in 1872. Administration Rehoboth is divided into eight neighbourhoods, called blocks. The oldest part of the town is blocks A, B and C, of which block B contains most public services and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Era (Namibia)
The ''New Era'' is a daily national newspaper owned by the government of Namibia. The newspaper is one of four daily national newspapers in the country, the others being ''The Namibian'' (English and Oshiwambo), ''Die Republikein'' (Afrikaans) and '' Allgemeine Zeitung'' (German). ''New Era'' was created by the ''New Era Publications Corporation Act of 1992''. According to Ullamaija Kivikuru, it copied the format of ''The Namibian'' in order to establish credibility. The two newspapers still resemble each other in having long stories spread over several pages. ''New Era'' has a usual circulation of 9,000, going up to 11,000 on Fridays.Rothe, ''Media System and News Selections in Namibia'', p. 23. It was established as a weekly newspaper and was later published only bi-weekly. It has appeared daily since 2004. ''New Era'' is published in English and five indigenous languages: Otjiherero, Oshiwambo, Damara/Nama, Silozi, and Khwedam. ''New Era'' is published by the New Era Public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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