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Keetmanshoop is an important centre for the Karakul sheep farming community. Keetmanshoop is connected to the TransNamib railway system, situated on the line from Windhoek to Upington in South Africa. The J. Stephanus Stadium is located in Keetmanshoop and is home to Fedics United F.C., a football team in the Namibia Premier League.
ǀAi-ǀAis (Khoekhoe: fire-fire, meaning 'hot as fire' or 'scalding hot' [3]) is a Namibian holiday resort with hot mineral springs in the bed of the Fish River.It is situated in Southern Namibia's ǁKaras Region at the base of the Great Karas Mountains, 128 kilometres (80 mi) west of Karasburg and 224 kilometres (139 mi) south-west of Keetmanshoop.
Some voters had been handed ballot papers meant for Keetmanshoop. No initial result were announced, and the electoral court ordered a re-run. [7] The re-run was conducted on 26 February 2021 and won by the newly formed Landless People's Movement (LPM). LPM gained 376 votes and three seats in the village council, followed by SWAPO with two seats ...
Keetmanshoop Urban is a constituency in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia. It comprises the city of Keetmanshoop, except the Krönlein suburb, covering an area of 524 km 2 (202 sq mi). It had a population of 19,447 in 2011, up from 15,777 in 2001. [1] [2] As of 2020 the constituency had 12,569 registered voters, [3] up from 11,534 in 2019.
Keetmanshoop Airport (IATA: KMP, ICAO: FYKT) is an airport serving Keetmanshoop, a city in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia. The airport is located about 5 km (3 mi) northwest of the town. [ 5 ] It has customs and immigration services and is home to the Namibia Aviation Training Academy (NATA).
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Keetmanshoop (Latin: Keetmanshoopen(sis)) is a suffragan diocese in the Latin Rite Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Windhoek in Namibia, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its cathedral episcopal see is St. Stanislaus Cathedral, in the city of Keetmanshoop.
At the time, Keetmanshoop was the only diocese in Southern Africa with a bishop but no cathedral. The foundation stone for today's church building was laid on May 13, 1954. The altar in the crypt was consecrated on June 17 of the same year. In February 1955 the statue of Our Lady of Fátima was placed in the church tower. Bishop Franz Esser ...
Keetmanshoop Rural is an electoral constituency in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia.It covers an area of 37,922 km 2 (14,642 sq mi) and contains the Krönlein suburb of Keetmanshoop and the villages of Koës and Aroab, the settlements of Seeheim and Klein Karas, as well as several farming communities in the area.