Rehoboth, Namibia
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Rehoboth is a town in the Hardap Region of central Namibia, just north of the Tropic of Capricorn. It had a population of 40,788 people in 2023.
Aerial view of Rehoboth (2017)
Stamps for German South West Africa postmarked Rehoboth 1901
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Kai ǀGarub (traditional regnal title [Great Leopard]) Chief Hans Eichab of the ǃAinîn Traditional Community of the ǂAixa (Copper beaded) clan of the ǀGôakōsema Great House from the Garise royal lineage.
Rehoboth in 1908
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
Rehoboth, Namibia
…serves as the border of the two electoral constituencies in the town, Rehoboth Urban West and Rehoboth Urban East. Rehoboth is the core territory of the Baster community which still lives according to their Paternal Laws which were enacted in 1872. Rehoboth lies on a high elevation plateau with several natural…
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