Aranos

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Aranos
Arahoab (historical)
Town
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CountryFile:Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia
RegionHardap Region
ConstituencyAranos Constituency
Proclaimed a village1958
Population
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Time zoneUTC+2 (South African Standard Time)
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Websitewww.aranostc.org/home.html

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Aranos is a town in the Hardap Region of central Namibia, situated in the Nossob River basin in the Kalahari Desert. The town had 5,493 inhabitants in 2023.

The main economic activity is farming.[2] The place normally receives an annual average rainfall of 188 millimetres (7.4 in), although in the 2010/2011 rainy season 505 millimetres (19.9 in) were measured.[3]

History

The original name of the settlement was Arahoab, Khoekhoe for red area. During the Herero Wars, Schutztruppe units of Imperial Germany's colonial forces were stationed here since March 1908. The volume of postal services to the military led to the opening of a post office in that year. After the war, in 1911, the military office was closed again.[4] Postal services, however, continued until the Germans lost control of the colony in 1915.[5]

To avoid confusion with the village of Aroab further south, Arahoab was renamed Aranos in the 1960s. Aranos is a portmanteau of Arahoab and Nossob River.[6]

Politics

Aranos is the administrative centre of Aranos Constituency since 2013. Before that it belonged to the Mariental Rural constituency.[7] Aranos was proclaimed a village in 1958.[8] It was governed by a 5-seat village council until it was upgraded to "town" status in 2010.[9] There is now a town council that has seven seats.[10]

In the 2004 local authority elections SWAPO won the town council election with 733 votes and gained three seats. One seat each were obtained by the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA, 234 votes) and the Republican Party (RP, 182 votes).[11] SWAPO also won most votes (546) in the 2010 local authority election. The Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) finished in 2nd place with 205 votes, followed by the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP, 186), SWANU (17) and the Congress of Democrats (15).[12] SWAPO also won the 2015 election, gaining four seats in the town council (598 votes). The RDP gained two seats (246 votes), and the DTA one (194).[13]

The 2020 local authority election was won by the newly formed Landless People's Movement (LPM) which scored well all over Hardap. LPM gained 745 votes and three seats in the town council, followed by SWAPO with two seats (465 votes), the likewise new Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) with one seat (283 votes) and the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM, the successor of the DTA), also with one seat and 90 votes.[14] The current mayor is Marline Claasen.[citation needed]

People

Aranos is the birthplace of former National Assembly member Jurie Viljoen[15] and human rights activist Pauline Dempers.[16]

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Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
20113,683—    
20235,493+3.39%
Sources:[17][1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."4.5 Population by town and census years (2011 and 2023)" (PDF). Namibia 2023 - Population and Housing Census. Main Report. Namibia Statistics Agency. pp. 33–34. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Our mission and vision". Aranos Town Council. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Menges, Werner (26 May 2011). "Rainy season was one for the record books". The Namibian. Archived from the original on 15 December 2011.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Albert, Uwe; Beck, Friedhelm (2022). Kaiserliche Poststationen in Deutsch-Südwestafrika [Imperial Post Stations in German South West Africa] (in Deutsch). Berlin: Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Sammler deutscher Kolonialpostwertzeichen e.V. p. online excerpt.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Deutsche Kolonien und Auslandspostämpter Stempelkatalog [Cancellation Catalogue of the German Colonies and Offices Abroad] (in German). Berlin: Arbeitsgemeinschaft de Sammler Deutscher Kolonialpostwertzeichen. 2018. p. 120. ISBN 3-920731-13-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Raper, P.E. (1989). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. A. ISBN 0947464042.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Creation of new regions and division and re-division of certain regions into constituencies: Regional Councils Act, 1992". Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia. No. 5261. Government of Namibia. 9 August 2013. pp. 33f. Archived from the original (pdf) on 27 April 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Information". Aranos Town Council. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hartman, Adam (27 Aug 2010). "Town regrading a 'sad move'". The Namibian. Archived from the original on 2012-03-17.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Know Your Local Authority". Election Watch. No. 3. Institute for Public Policy Research. 2015. p. 4.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."14 May 2004 Local Authority Elections in Namibia". African Elections Database. 31 December 2005. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  12. ^ Local Authority results Script error: No such module "webarchive". Electoral Commission of Namibia
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Local elections results". Electoral Commission of Namibia. 28 November 2015. p. 2. Archived from the original on 10 December 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."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.
  15. ^ ELECTIONS 2009: MAG leading senior members New Era, 5 October 2009
  16. ^ Pauline Dempers Script error: No such module "webarchive". Namibia Institute for Democracy
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."4.2.2 Urban population by Census years (2001 and 2011)" (PDF). Namibia 2011 - Population and Housing Census Main Report. Namibia Statistics Agency. p. 39. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
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