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References
- 1 2 "Republic of South Africa - Government Gazette" (PDF). RehobothBasters.org. 28 April 1976.
- ↑ JHP Serfontein: Namibia? , Focus South Publishers, 1976, pp. 140ff/246.
- ↑ "Statutes of the Rohoboth Basters by Resolution of the Kaptein and his Councillors in the Year 1872" (PDF). RehobothBasters.org. 31 January 1872. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
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