Aranos is a settlement in Hardap Region

Hardap Region

Hardap is one of the thirteen regions of Namibia. 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...

, Namibia

Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...

. Since August 2010 it has town status. 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.

Politics

In the 2010 local authority election

Namibian local and regional elections, 2010

Namibia held elections for their local and regional councils on 26 and 27 November 2010. The terms of regional councillors and local authority representatives were originally set to expire in 2009...

, SWAPO received the most votes with 546. The Democratic Turnhalle Alliance finished in 2nd place with 205 votes, followed by the Rally for Democracy and Progress

Rally for Democracy and Progress (Namibia)

The Rally for Democracy and Progress is an opposition political party in Namibia. It was launched on November 17 2007 under the leadership of Hidipo Hamutenya and Jesaya Nyamu, both former leading members of the ruling SWAPO party and cabinet ministers. Hamutenya had unsuccessfully sought the SWAPO...

 (186), SWANU (17) and the Congress of Democrats

Congress of Democrats

The Congress of Democrats is a political party in Namibia, led by Ben Ulenga. It is an opposition party represented in the National Assembly.The party is an observer of the Socialist International.- 2004 elections :...

 (15).

People

Aranos is the birthplace of former member of the National Assembly of Namibia

National Assembly of Namibia

The National Assembly of Namibia is the lower chamber of the country's bicameral Parliament. It has a total of 78 members. 72 members are directly elected through a system of party-list proportional representation and serve five-year terms. Six additional members are appointed by the President.The...

 Jurie Viljoen

Jurie Viljoen

Johannes Jurie Viljoen is a Namibian politician. Viljoen was a member of the 4th National Assembly of Namibia from 2005-2010...

  and human rights activist Pauline Dempers

Pauline Dempers

Pauline Frannzisca Dempers is a Namibian human rights activist and politician. In 1996, Dempers became national coordinator for Breaking the Wall of Silence , a group which advocates for the rights of those detained by SWAPO during the Namibian War of Independence...

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