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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. Geography 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 electoral 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 re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regions Of Namibia
Namibia uses regions as its first-level subnational administrative divisions. Since 2013, it has 14 regions which in turn are subdivided into Constituencies of Namibia, 121 constituencies. Upon Independence of Namibia, Namibian independence, the pre-existing subdivisions from the South African administration were taken over. Since then, demarcations and numbers of regions and constituencies of Namibia are tabled by delimitation commissions and accepted or declined by the National Assembly of Namibia, National Assembly. In 1992, the ''1st Delimitation Commission'', chaired by Judge President Johan Strydom, proposed that Namibia should be divided into 13 regions. The suggestion was approved in the lower house, The National Assembly. In 2014, the ''4th Delimitation Commission'' amended the number of regions to fourteen. The most urbanised and economically active regions are the Khomas and Erongo region, with Khomas home to the capital, Windhoek, and Erongo home to Walvis Bay and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kgalagadi District
Kgalagadi is a district in southwest Botswana, lying along the country's border with Namibia and South Africa. The administrative center is Tsabong. The district of Kgalagadi covers a large part of the Kalahari Desert. It has a total area of 105,200 km2 and has a population of 42,000 (2001). More than one-third of the district is covered by the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, which extends into South Africa, and which is a major tourist attraction. As of 2011, the total population of the district was 50,492 (compared to 42,049 in 2001). The growth rate of population during the decade was 1.85. Kgalagadi's population represents 2.49 per cent of the total population of Botswana. The majority of employees (in 2011 there were 10,530 people in work) were working within the transport & communication and public administration sectors. The district is administered by a district administration and district council. Geography Kgalagadi borders Omaheke Region, Namibia in the northwest, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariental Urban
Mariental Urban is a constituency in the Hardap region of Namibia. It comprises the town of Mariental and the surrounding area, covering an area of . Mariental Urban had a population of 15,557 in 2011, up from 13,109 in 2001. the constituency had 10,480 registered voters. Politics Mariental is traditionally a stronghold of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) party. In the 2004 regional election, SWAPO candidate Barakias Namwandi received 2,729 of the 4,037 votes cast and became councillor. The 2015 regional elections were won by Nico Herman Mungenga of SWAPO with 2,251 votes. Regina Kuhlman of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) came second with 247 votes, followed by Reginald Poulton of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP, 151 votes). The 2020 regional election was won by Petrus Esterhuizen of the Landless People's Movement The Landless People's Movement is an independent social movement in South Africa. It consisted of rural people and peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariental Rural
Mariental Rural is a Constituencies of Namibia, constituency in the Hardap Region, Hardap region of Namibia. Its constituency office is situated in Stampriet. It had a population of 15,308 in 2011, up from 13,946 in 2001. The constituency originally covered an area of . In August 2013, Mariental Rural lost the eastern part of its territory, which became a constituency of its own, namely Aranos Constituency. the constituency had 4,065 registered voters. Politics Mariental Rural is traditionally a stronghold of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) party. In the 2004 Namibian local and regional elections, 2004 regional election, SWAPO candidate Katrina Hanse-Himarwa, Katrina Hanse received 2,411 of the 4,636 votes cast and became councillor. The Namibian local and regional elections, 2015, 2015 regional elections were won by Simon Christy Dukeleni of SWAPO with 1,207 votes. The runner-up and only challenger was Anna Elizabeth de Kock of the Rally for Democracy and Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
