South West Africa
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South West Africa was a territory under South African administration from 1915 to 1990. Renamed Namibia by the United Nations in 1968, it became independent under this name on 21 March 1990.
Bantustans in South West Africa as of 1978
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