Basters
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The Basters are a Southern African ethnic group descended from Nama people of Khoekhoe origin and Europeans. Since the second half of the 19th century, the Rehoboth Baster community has been concentra
Illustration of mixed-race "Afrikaner" Trekboer nomads in the Cape Colony, ancestral to the Baster people
The first council of the Rehoboth Basters, 1872. First Kaptein Hermanus van Wyk is the third from left; the book on the table is the Vaderlike Wette, the constitution of the Basters. On the right is his brother Christoffel van Wyk. Their father was Cornelius van Wyk.
Rehoboth, 1896
Coloured people in Namibia
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Coloured people in Namibia are Namibians of mixed ancestry, generally combining European and Indigenous African. Also, in some cases, Indian, Malay, and Malagasy lineage, especially in coastal regions
Namibian Coloureds from the Apartheid Era