Witvlei

Mayor / in: vacant ( SWAPO )

Chief Executive Officer: Magdalena OAIS ( transitional )

Last election: 2010

Next election: 2015

Address of the city administration:

Geographic coordinates: 22 ° 24'35 "S, 18 ° 29'30 " E

Height: 1455

Witvlei is a village in Namibia, about 150 kilometers east of Windhoek on the National Road B6 about 50 kilometers west of Gobabis Gobabis in the same constituency.

The name " Witvlei " is Afrikaans and means as much as white pan, which is called " pan " a small lake, which is filled only to the rainy season with water.

Witvlei lies on 1455 m height, has about 1000 inhabitants and has a railway station, a hotel, a gas station, police station, post office, church and a supermarket.

Policy

The village council of Witvlei consists of five members, three of which SWAPO and each one of the UDF and RDP belong. It was chaired by June 2006 Livey Van Wyk. Since then, the position is vacant.

In the 2010 local elections the following official final result was determined.

Culture and sights

The place is also held every 2 years for its Carnival, the second largest of Namibia known.

Economy and infrastructure

A large slaughterhouse currently produced in Witvlei meat for Norway and should in the future the restaurant chain Maredo supply in Germany and Austria. There, about 1,500 cattle per month be slaughtered. In Witvlei was also the premises of Uri -Automobile, where the only real Namibian vehicle, the " Uri " was made ​​; Production and sales in Namibia were terminated in 2006.

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