Kalkrand is a village in the

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 ...

of southern 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 e ...

. It is situated between Rehoboth and Mariental on the national road B1. The village features a petrol station, schools, a police station and a public clinic. The inhabitants mainly live from small livestock and cattle farming.

Politics

Kalkrand is governed by a village council that has five seats. The 2015 local authority election was won by the

SWAPO The South West Africa People's Organisation (, SWAPO; af, Suidwes-Afrikaanse Volks Organisasie, SWAVO; german: Südwestafrikanische Volksorganisation, SWAVO), officially known as the SWAPO Party of Namibia, is a political party and former ind ...

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 The Landless People's Movement was an independent social movement in South Africa. It consisted of rural people and people living in shack settlements in cities. The Landless People's Movement boycotted parliamentary elections and had a history ...

(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 The Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) is a political party in Namibia. It was founded by Panduleni Itula in August 2020. As an independent presidential candidate in the November 2019 election, Itula won the best result of a losing candida ...

(IPC) won 97 votes and the remaining village council seat.

References

Populated places in the Hardap Region Villages in Namibia {{namibia-geo-stub