Basters, the Glossary
The Basters (also known as Baasters, Rehobothers, or Rehoboth Basters) are a Southern African ethnic group descended from Cape Coloureds and Nama of Khoisan origin.[1]
Table of Contents
88 relations: Afrikaans, Afrikaners, Albert Mouton, Angola, Apartheid, Bantustan, Basutoland, Ben Africa, Bondelswarts, British protectorate, Cadastre, Cape Colony, Cape Coloureds, Christianity in Africa, Coloureds, Cornelius van Wyk, Damara people, Diergaardt v. Namibia, English language, Ethnonym, Free Negro, Genocide, German Empire, Germany, Government of Namibia, Griqua people, Hans Beukes, Hans Diergaardt, Hectare, Herero people, Herero Wars, Hermanus van Wyk, High yellow, Indonesia, Indonesians, Johann Christian Friedrich Heidmann, John McNab, Kalahari Desert, Kamiesberge, Khoekhoe, Khoisan, Khorab Memorial, League of Nations, Legitimacy (family law), London Missionary Society, Louis Botha, Lubango, Malays (ethnic group), Métis, Moses, ... Expand index (38 more) »
- Afrikaner diaspora
- Coloured Namibian people
- Ethnic groups in Namibia
- Multiracial affairs in Africa
- South African English
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Afrikaners
Afrikaners are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652.Entry: Cape Colony. Encyclopædia Britannica Volume 4 Part 2: Brain to Casting. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 1933. James Louis Garvin, editor. Until 1994, they dominated South Africa's politics as well as the country's commercial agricultural sector. Basters and Afrikaners are ethnic groups in Namibia and members of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization.
Albert Mouton
Albert Mouton was the third Captain of the Rehoboth Baster in South West Africa from 1924 to 1925.
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.
Apartheid
Apartheid (especially South African English) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s.
Bantustan
A Bantustan (also known as a Bantu homeland, a black homeland, a black state or simply known as a homeland) was a territory that the National Party administration of South Africa set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia), as a part of its policy of apartheid. Basters and Bantustan are south African English.
Basutoland
Basutoland was a British Crown colony that existed from 1884 to 1966 in present-day Lesotho, bordered with the Cape Colony, Natal Colony and Orange River Colony until 1910 and completely surrounded by South Africa from 1910.
Ben Africa
Ben Africa (born 13 October 1938) is a Namibian politician, medical doctor, and former Baster captain.
Bondelswarts
The Bondelswarts are a Nama ethnic group of Southern Africa living in the extreme south of Namibia, in an area centred on the town of Warmbad. Basters and Bondelswarts are ethnic groups in Namibia.
British protectorate
British protectorates were protectorates—or client states—under protection of the British Empire's armed forces and represented by British diplomats in international arenas, such as the Great Game, in which the Emirate of Afghanistan and the Tibetan Kingdom became protected states for short periods of time.
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Cadastre
A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country.
Cape Colony
The Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie), also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good Hope.
Cape Coloureds
Cape Coloureds are a South African ethnic classification consisting primarily of persons of mixed race African, Asian and European descent. Basters and Cape Coloureds are Afrikaner diaspora.
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Christianity in Africa
Christianity in Africa arrived in Africa in the 1st century AD, and in the 21st century the majority of Africans are Christians.
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Coloureds
Coloureds (Kleurlinge) refers to members of multiracial ethnic communities in South Africa who have ancestry from African, European, and Asian people. Basters and Coloureds are ethnic groups in Namibia and multiracial affairs in Africa.
Cornelius van Wyk
Cornelius van Wyk (died 24 April 1924) was the second Captain of the Rehoboth Baster, serving from 1914 until his death in 1924.
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Damara people
The Damara, plural Damaran (Khoekhoegowab: ǂNūkhoen, Black people, Bergdamara, referring to their extended stay in hilly and mountainous sites, also called at various times the Daman or the Damaqua) are an ethnic group who make up 8.5% of Namibia's population. Basters and Damara people are ethnic groups in Namibia.
Diergaardt v. Namibia
J.G.A. Diergaardt (late Captain of the Rehoboth Baster Community) et al.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Ethnonym
An ethnonym is a name applied to a given ethnic group.
Free Negro
In the British colonies in North America and in the United States before the abolition of slavery in 1865, free Negro or free Black described the legal status of African Americans who were not enslaved.
Genocide
Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people, either in whole or in part.
German Empire
The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Government of Namibia
The government of Namibia consists of the executive, the legislative and the judiciary branches.
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Griqua people
The Griquas are a subgroup of mixed-race heterogeneous formerly Xiri-speaking nations in South Africa with a unique origin in the early history of the Dutch Cape Colony. Basters and Griqua people are Afrikaner diaspora.
Hans Beukes
Hans Beukes is a Namibian writer and former activist. Basters and Hans Beukes are Coloured Namibian people.
Hans Diergaardt
Johannes Gerard Adolph Diergaardt, more commonly known as Hans Diergaardt (16 September 1927 – 13 February 1998) was a Namibian politician active for nearly a decade after Namibia gained independence. Basters and Hans Diergaardt are Coloured Namibian people.
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Hectare
The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), that is, 10,000 square meters (10,000 m2), and is primarily used in the measurement of land.
Herero people
The Herero (Ovaherero) are a Bantu ethnic group inhabiting parts of Southern Africa.
Herero Wars
The Herero Wars were a series of colonial wars between the German Empire and the Herero people of German South West Africa (present-day Namibia).
Hermanus van Wyk
Hermanus van Wyk (1835–1905) was the first Kaptein of the Baster community at Rehoboth in South-West Africa, today Namibia.
See Basters and Hermanus van Wyk
High yellow
High yellow, occasionally simply yellow (dialect: yaller, yella), is a term used to describe a light-skinned person of white and black ancestry.
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Indonesians
Indonesians (Indonesian: orang Indonesia) are citizens or people who are identified with the country of Indonesia, regardless of their ethnic or religious background.
Johann Christian Friedrich Heidmann
Johann Christian Friedrich (Fritz) Heidmann (1 November 1834 – 30 June 1913) was a German missionary and botanical collector.
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John McNab
John McNab (1934/1935 - 3 October 2020) was a Namibian politician who served as Rehoboth Baster captain from 1999 until 2020. Basters and John McNab are Coloured Namibian people.
Kalahari Desert
The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for, covering much of Botswana, as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa.
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Kamiesberge
The Kamiesberg or Kamiesberge (Khoikhoi "Th'amies".
Khoekhoe
Khoekhoe (/ˈkɔɪkɔɪ/ ''KOY-koy'') (or Khoikhoi in former orthography) are the traditionally nomadic pastoralist indigenous population of South Africa. Basters and Khoekhoe are ethnic groups in Namibia.
Khoisan
Khoisan, or Khoe-Sān, is a catch-all term for the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa who traditionally speak non-Bantu languages, combining the Khoekhoen (formerly "Hottentots") and the Sān peoples (also called "Bushmen").
Khorab Memorial
Khorab, a farm oasis 2.6 km north of Otavi, Namibia, hosts a monument commemorating negotiations between South African and German troops fighting in World War I. These led to the surrender of around 4,000 German soldiers in what was known as the Treaty of Khorab.
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League of Nations
The League of Nations (LN or LoN; Société des Nations, SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
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Legitimacy (family law)
Legitimacy, in traditional Western common law, is the status of a child born to parents who are legally married to each other, and of a child conceived before the parents obtain a legal divorce.
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London Missionary Society
The London Missionary Society was an interdenominational evangelical missionary society formed in England in 1795 at the instigation of Welsh Congregationalist minister Edward Williams.
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Louis Botha
Louis Botha (27 September 1862 – 27 August 1919) was a South African politician who was the first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, the forerunner of the modern South African state.
Lubango
Lubango, formerly known as Sá da Bandeira, is a municipality in Angola, capital of the Huíla Province, with a population of 914,456 in 2022.
Malays (ethnic group)
Malays (Orang Melayu, Jawi) are an Austronesian ethnoreligious group native to eastern Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula and coastal Borneo, as well as the smaller islands that lie between these locations.
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Métis
The Métis are an Indigenous people whose historical homelands include Canada's three Prairie Provinces.
Moses
Moses; Mōše; also known as Moshe or Moshe Rabbeinu (Mishnaic Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּינוּ); Mūše; Mūsā; Mōÿsēs was a Hebrew prophet, teacher and leader, according to Abrahamic tradition.
Nama people
Nama (in older sources also called Namaqua) are an African ethnic group of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. Basters and Nama people are ethnic groups in Namibia.
Namib
The Namib (Namibe) is a coastal desert in Southern Africa.
Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.
Namibia Press Agency
The Namibia Press Agency (NAMPA) is the national news agency of the Republic of Namibia.
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Nation
A nation is a large type of social organization where a collective identity, a national identity, has emerged from a combination of shared features across a given population, such as language, history, ethnicity, culture, territory or society.
National Archives of Namibia
The National Archives of Namibia (NAN) is the national archives of Namibia, located in Windhoek.
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New Era (Namibia)
The New Era is a daily national newspaper owned by the government of Namibia.
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Oorlam people
The Oorlam or Orlam people (also known as Orlaam, Oorlammers, Oerlams, or Orlamse Hottentots) are a subtribe of the Nama people, largely assimilated after their migration from the Cape Colony (today, part of South Africa) to Namaqualand and Damaraland (now in Namibia). Basters and Oorlam people are ethnic groups in Namibia and multiracial affairs in Africa.
Orange River
The Orange River (from Afrikaans/Dutch: Oranjerivier) is a river in Southern Africa.
Ovambo people
The Ovambo people, also called Aawambo, Ambo, Aawambo (Ndonga, Nghandjera, Kwambi, Kwaluudhi, Kolonghadhi, Mbalantu, mbadja), or Ovawambo (Kwanyama), are a Bantu ethnic group native to Southern Africa, primarily modern Namibia. Basters and Ovambo people are ethnic groups in Namibia.
Ovamboland
Ovamboland, also referred to as Owamboland, was a Bantustan and later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Ovambos, in South West Africa (present-day Namibia).
Prisoner of war
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
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Quadroon
In the colonial societies of the Americas and Australia, a quadroon or quarteron (in the United Kingdom, the term quarter-caste is used) was a person with one-quarter African/Aboriginal and three-quarters European ancestry.
Reappropriation
In linguistics, reappropriation, reclamation, or resignification is the cultural process by which a group reclaims words or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group.
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Reformed Christianity
Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, a schism in the Western Church.
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Rehoboth (homeland)
Rehoboth (or Basterland) was a homeland in South West Africa (present-day Namibia) intended by the apartheid-era government to be a self-governing homeland for the Baster people in the area around the town of Rehoboth. Basters and Rehoboth (homeland) are Coloured Namibian people.
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Rehoboth, Namibia
Rehoboth is a town in central Namibia just north of the Tropic of Capricorn.
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Rhineland bastard
Rhineland bastard (Rheinlandbastard.) was a derogatory term used in Nazi Germany to describe Afro-Germans, born of mixed-race relationships between German women and black African men of the French Army who were stationed in the Rhineland during its occupation by France after World War I. After 1933, under Nazi racial theories, Afro-Germans deemed to be Rheinlandbastarde were persecuted.
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Richtersveld
The Richtersveld is a desert landscape characterised by rugged kloofs and high mountains, situated in the north-western corner of South Africa’s Northern Cape province.
Schutztruppe
Schutztruppe (Protection Force) was the official name of the colonial troops in the African territories of the German colonial empire from the late 19th century to 1918. Similar to other colonial armies, the Schutztruppen consisted of volunteer European commissioned and non-commissioned officers, medical and veterinary officers.
Self-determination
Self-determination refers to a people's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
South African Border War
The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia (then South West Africa), Zambia, and Angola from 26 August 1966 to 21 March 1990.
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South West Africa
South West Africa, renamed to Namibia from 12 June 1968, was a South African Province under South African administration from 1915 to 1990, after which it became modern-day Namibia.
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South West Africa campaign
The South West Africa campaign was the conquest and occupation of German South West Africa by forces from the Union of South Africa acting on behalf of the British imperial government at the beginning of the First World War.
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Southern Africa
Southern Africa is the southernmost region of Africa.
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Sovereignty
Sovereignty can generally be defined as supreme authority.
SWAPO
The South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO; Suidwes-Afrikaanse Volks Organisasie, SWAVO; Südwestafrikanische Volksorganisation, SWAVO), officially known as the SWAPO Party of Namibia, is a political party and former independence movement in Namibia (formerly South West Africa).
The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands.
The Namibian
The Namibian is the largest daily newspaper in Namibia.
Theodor Seitz
Theodor Seitz (Mannheim, 12 September 1863 – Baden-Baden, 28 March 1949) was a German colonial governor.
Tribal chief
A tribal chief, chieftain, or headman is the leader of a tribal society or chiefdom.
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United Nations Human Rights Committee
The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a treaty body composed of 18 experts, established by a 1966 human rights treaty, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
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Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, or simply UNPO is an international organization established to facilitate the voices of unrepresented and marginalised nations and peoples worldwide.
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Walvis Bay
Walvis Bay (lit.; Walvisbaai; Walfischbucht or Walfischbai) is a city in Namibia and the name of the bay on which it lies.
Windhoek
Windhoek is the capital and largest city of Namibia.
World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
See also
Afrikaner diaspora
Coloured Namibian people
- Basters
- Coloured people in Namibia
- Dawid Bezuidenhout
- Federal Convention of Namibia
- Hans Beukes
- Hans Diergaardt
- Hermanus Beukes
- Jan van Wyk
- John McNab
- John Walters (lawyer)
- Leaders of Rehoboth
- Nora Schimming-Chase
- Otto Schimming
- Reggie Diergaardt
- Rehoboth (homeland)
- Steve Bezuidenhout
- William Worthington Jordan
- Zenobia Kloppers
Ethnic groups in Namibia
- Afrikaners
- Angolans in Namibia
- Basters
- Bondelswarts
- British diaspora in Africa
- Chinese people in Namibia
- Chokwe people
- Coloured people in Namibia
- Coloureds
- Damara people
- GDR Children of Namibia
- German Namibians
- German colonization of Africa
- Himba people
- Kavango people
- Khoekhoe
- Kwisi people
- List of Mbunda Chiefs in Zambia
- Lozi people
- Mbadja people
- Mbanderu people
- Mbukushu
- Mbunda people
- Nama people
- Oorlam people
- Ovambo
- Ovambo people
- Red Nation (Namibia)
- San people
- Sesfontein Damara
- Sotho
- Strandloper peoples
- Subia people
- Subiya
- Tjimba people
- Topnaar people
- Traditional leadership of Namibia
- Twa
- White Namibians
- Yeyi people
- Zemba
- ǂAakhoe dialect
- ǃKung people
Multiracial affairs in Africa
- Basters
- Cafres
- Cape Verdeans
- Coloured people in Namibia
- Coloureds
- Federation of South African Women
- Fernandino people
- Goffal
- Gold Coast Euro-Africans
- Immorality Act
- Immorality Act, 1927
- Mestiço
- Multiracial Ugandans in Uganda
- Oorlam people
- Prazeros
- Rainbow nation
- Seychellois Creole people
- Signare
South African English
- Amandla (power)
- Baasskap
- Banket (mining term)
- Bantustan
- Basters
- Bergie
- Boerewors
- Boma (enclosure)
- Cape Flats English
- Dam (agricultural reservoir)
- Droëwors
- Goffal
- Hottentot (racial term)
- Impi
- InDuna
- Indaba
- Izikhothane
- Kaffir (racial term)
- Karoo
- Kraal
- List of English words of Zulu origin
- List of South African English regionalisms
- List of South African slang words
- Madiba shirt
- Makarapa
- Muti
- Okapi (knife)
- Predikant
- Rhodie
- Rondavel
- Shebeen
- Shweshwe
- Sjambok
- South African English
- Spoor (animal)
- Strandloper peoples
- Uitlander
- Ukuthwalwa
- Veld
- Volkspele
- Vuvuzela
- Whenwe
- White South African English phonology
- Zef
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basters
Also known as Bastards of Rehoboth, Baster, Baster of Rehoboth, Dutch people in Namibia, Free Republic of Rehoboth, Rehoboth Bastaards, Rehoboth Baster, Rehoboth Basters, Rehobother, Rehobothers.
, Nama people, Namib, Namibia, Namibia Press Agency, Nation, National Archives of Namibia, New Era (Namibia), Oorlam people, Orange River, Ovambo people, Ovamboland, Prisoner of war, Quadroon, Reappropriation, Reformed Christianity, Rehoboth (homeland), Rehoboth, Namibia, Rhineland bastard, Richtersveld, Schutztruppe, Self-determination, South Africa, South African Border War, South West Africa, South West Africa campaign, Southern Africa, Sovereignty, SWAPO, The Hague, The Namibian, Theodor Seitz, Tribal chief, United Nations, United Nations Human Rights Committee, Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, Walvis Bay, Windhoek, World War I.