History of Arandis

The town of Arandis was originally established by the Rössing Uranium Mine, to serve as housing for mineworkers in the early seventies. Still today a large number of Rössing inhabitants are employed by the mine, but already there is a strong initiative for the development of alternative industry to create other employment opportunities, as the Rössing mine has in recent years drastically downscaled their operations and number of employees due to deflated uranium prices on the world market. In the light of this, Arandis was the first town in Namibia to be declared an Export Processing Zone with the aim to attract industrial investors to the town.