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16-604: Bethanie is situated on the C14 road between Goageb and Walvis Bay , 100 km (62 mi) west of Keetmanshoop . The area around Bethanie originally belonged to the Red Nation . At the beginning of the 18th century, the ǃAman ( Bethanie Orlam ), a subtribe of the Orlam people , obtained settlement rights and settled here. As missionaries started travelling north from the Cape Colony in

32-644: A drought-plagued former mining town – is the primary setting for Richard Stanley 's 1993 feature horror film , Dust Devil . 26°29′S 17°09′E  /  26.483°S 17.150°E  / -26.483; 17.150 C14 road (Namibia) The C14 , also the MR 36 , is an untarred road in Namibia . It starts in Walvis Bay and goes south-east through Solitaire , Maltahöhe , Helmeringhausen and ends in Goageb . It

48-448: A system of proportional representation . Regional and local elections taken together elected 199 women out of the 499 available seats, partly because affirmative action for women is required by law in local authority elections. There were 121 constituency councillors to be elected. Each of them represented their constituency in the respective regional council. The regional councils in turn selected 3 representatives each to serve in

64-616: A term that the tribal chief was not familiar with: 1 German geographical mile was approximately 7.4 kilometres ( 4 + 5 ⁄ 8  mi), whereas the common mile in the territory was the English mile , 1.6 kilometres. Bethanie is governed by a village council that has five seats. In the 2004 local authority elections the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) narrowly won over South West Africa People's Organisation ( SWAPO ) with 307 votes (three seats) to 299 (two seats). In

80-616: Is 643 kilometres (400 mi) long and rises up to an altitude of 1,528 metres (5,013 ft) above sea level. The steepest gradient is 1:9. The C14 is one of the major tourist routes in Namibia, leading to the tourist attractions Vogelfederberg  [ de ] , Kuiseb River and Canyon, Gaub River Canyon, the Tropic of Capricorn road sign ( 23°30′00″S 15°46′19″E  /  23.50000°S 15.77194°E  / -23.50000; 15.77194 ), Solitaire and Helmeringhausen. It touches

96-720: Is Johannes Frederick. His predecessor David Frederick (Chief 1977-2018), alongside Herero Paramount Chief Advocate Vekuii Rukoro in January 2017 filed a class-action lawsuit against Germany on behalf of the Herero and Nama peoples in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York . David Frederick was the grandson of Cornelius Fredericks , a leading resistance fighter against German colonial invasion. A fictionalized version of Bethanie – named " Bethany " in English and depicted as

112-469: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Namibian local and regional elections, 2015 Namibia held elections for their local and regional councils on 27 November 2015. Ballots were cast using electronic voting . Elections to regional councils are held using the first-past-the-post electoral system. Voters in each constituency elect one councillor to represent them on their regional council. Local authority councillors are elected by

128-552: The 2010 local authority election Bethanie again was one of only a few local councils in Namibia that the SWAPO did not win. This time the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP, an opposition party founded in 2007) narrowly beat SWAPO with 253 to 245 votes. The DTA finished in 3rd with 52 votes. The 2015 local authority election was won by SWAPO which gained three seats (278 votes) while the DTA gained

144-606: The Namib-Naukluft National Park and also serves an access road to Sossusvlei , Sesriem , Duwisib Castle , and the Fish River Canyon . The C14 is frequently in bad condition, with tourist travel by sedan "not advisable". Even though it would also be a much shorter connection between the major ports of Lüderitz and Walvis Bay, there are no plans to tar this road due to fears of unsustainability. This Namibian road or road transport-related article

160-690: The National Council . In twenty-eight constituencies SWAPO was announced as winner in October because no opposition party nominated a candidate. Local elections determine the population of the village, town, and city councils and have a direct influence on who will become mayor, as this position is elected among all councillors. Contrary to the regional elections, local elections in Namibia are determined by party, not by individual. There are 57 local authorities to be elected. In five of them ( Okahao , Omuthiyagwiipundi , Oniipa , Outapi and Tsandi ) SWAPO

176-463: The area of Angra Pequena (today the town of Lüderitz ) from Frederiks for 100 £ in gold and 200 rifles. Three months later on 21 August, Frederiks sold Lüderitz with a stretch of land 140 kilometres (87 mi) wide, between the Orange River and Angra Pequena, for 500£ and 60 rifles. This area was far bigger than Frederiks had thought, as the contract specified its width as "20 geographical miles",

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192-523: The building of a chapel which was in ruins when James Edward Alexander visited the village in 1837. In 1822, Schmelen left Bethanie after becoming frustrated with his missionary work among the local tribes, who refused his repeated and impassioned pleas to attend church and because of an ongoing conflict between Amraal Lambert's Orlam and another Namaqua tribe living at the station. Livestock and men were killed, and buildings burned. According to James Edward Alexander , Schmelen had "tried in vain to prevent

208-564: The early 19th century, they established mission stations on their way. The London Missionary Society founded the town, but, because of a shortage of missionaries and presumably because of the cooperation between the London and Rhenish Missionary Society at the time, they instead sent a German missionary. Reverend Heinrich Schmelen arrived in 1814 as missionary of the Kaiǀkhauan ( Khauas Nama ) and their leader Amraal Lambert . The Schmelenhaus

224-504: The people of the station exchanging their cattle at [ Lüderitz ] ... for fire-arms and ammunition" and saw no end to the local conflicts. The original church was built in 1859, and also still stands today. In 1883, Bethanie was the scene of the historical land sale at the house of Namaqua chief Josef Frederiks II that would eventually establish Imperial Germany 's colony of German South West Africa . Adolf Lüderitz in May 1883 obtained

240-558: The remaining two seats (188 votes). In the 2020 local authority election the Landless People's Movement (LPM, a new party registered in 2018) won with 378 votes and gained three seats. One seat each went to the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM, the new name of the DTA since 2017) with 179 votes, and to SWAPO with 166 votes. Bethanie is the seat of the !Aman Traditional Authority , and its current chief ( Kaptein )

256-506: Was built the same year, long considered the oldest structure in Namibia. It has been a National Monument since 1952 and currently serves as a small museum. It was later discovered that the church and the pastor's house in Warmbad , both destroyed in 1811, were older than the Schmelenhaus, and that the fortification of ǁKhauxaǃnas predates all other European constructions. Schmelen also initiated

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