Kalkrand

Kalkrand
Khoekhoe: ǃHanās
Village
Aerial view of Kalkrand (2019)
Aerial view of Kalkrand (2019)
Kalkrand is located in Namibia
Kalkrand
Kalkrand
Location within Namibia
Coordinates: 24°04′S 17°35′E / 24.067°S 17.583°E / -24.067; 17.583
Country Namibia
Population
 (2023)
 • Total
1,602
Time zoneUTC+2 (South African Standard Time)
ClimateBWh

Kalkrand is a village in the Hardap Region of southern central Namibia. It had 1,602 inhabitants in 2023.

Geography

Kalkrand is situated between Rehoboth and Mariental on the national road B1. The regional road C21 connects it to Maltahöhe and Hoachanas. The village features a petrol station, schools, a police station and a public clinic. Kalkrand is riddled with poverty and unemployment. Inhabitants mainly live from small livestock and cattle farming.

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
2011830—    
20231,602+5.63%
Source:

Politics

Kalkrand is governed by a village council that has five seats.

Upon Namibian independence Kalkrand was governed by a seven-seat village council. The first local election run after independence, the 1992 local elections, was won by the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) which obtained 293 votes and gained five seats. SWAPO came second with 148 votes and two seats. The 1998 local authority elections saw a much narrower result. DTA obtained four seats with 133 votes, SWAPO got the remaining thee seats with 131 votes.

The 2015 local authority election was won by the SWAPO party which gained four seats (399 votes). The remaining seat went to the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) which obtained 121 votes). The 2020 local authority election was won by the newly formed Landless People's Movement (LPM) which scored well all over Hardap. LPM gained 312 votes and two seats, followed by SWAPO, also with two seats (234 votes). The likewise new Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) won 97 votes and the remaining village council seat.

References

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  6. ↑ "Know Your Local Authority". Election Watch. No. 3. Institute for Public Policy Research. 2015. p. 4.
  7. ↑ "Electoral Act. 1992: Notification of result of general election for local authority councils" (pdf). Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia. No. 547. Government of Namibia. 7 December 1992. p. 9.
  8. ↑ "Electoral Act, 1992: Notification of results of general election for local authority councils" (pdf). Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia. No. 1805. Government of Namibia. 5 March 1998. p. 8.
  9. ↑ "Local elections results". Electoral Commission of Namibia. 28 November 2015. p. 2. Archived from the original on 10 December 2015.
  10. ↑ "2020 Local Authority Elections Results and Allocation of Seats" (PDF). Electoral Commission of Namibia. 29 November 2020. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2020.