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| Tenure | Incumbent | Affiliation | |
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| 2 July 1979 to May 1989 | Johannes "Hans" Diergaardt, Chairman of the Executive Committee (Captain of the Basters) | RFP | |
RFP - Rehoboth Freedom Party
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South West Africa was a territory under South African administration from 1915 to 1990, after which it became modern-day Namibia. It bordered Angola, Botswana, South Africa, and Zambia.
Rehoboth may refer to:
Hardap is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, its capital is Mariental. Hardap contains the municipality of Mariental, the towns Rehoboth and Aranos, and the self-governed villages Gibeon, Gochas, Kalkrand, Stampriet and Maltahöhe. It is home to the Hardap Dam.
The flag of Namibia was adopted on 21 March 1990 upon independence from South Africa.
The Basters are a Southern African ethnic group descended from Cape Coloureds and Nama of Khoisan origin. Since the second half of the 19th century, the Rehoboth Baster community has been concentrated in central Namibia, in and around the town of Rehoboth. Basters are closely related to Afrikaners, Cape Coloured and Griqua peoples of South Africa and Namibia, with whom they share a language and culture. They are also related to the local Nama people, with the Rehoboth Basters being considered a Nama clan by many, having a "Kaptein" just like many Nama settlements in Southern Namibia.
Rehoboth is a town in central Namibia just north of the Tropic of Capricorn. Located 90 kilometres south of the Namibian capital Windhoek, Rehoboth lies on a high elevation plateau with several natural hot-water springs. It receives sparse mean annual rainfall of 240 millimetres (9.4 in), although in the 2010/2011 rainy season a record 731 millimetres (28.8 in) were measured. In 2005, it had a population of 21,378 later increased to 28,843 in 2011, according to the 2011 Namibian Population and Housing Census.
Rehoboth was a homeland and later, a second-tier authority, the Government of Rehoboth, in South West Africa intended by the apartheid-era government to be a self-governing homeland for the Baster people in the area around the town of Rehoboth, Namibia.
Vehicle registration plates of Namibia are yellow fluorescent metal plates with imprints in black. The standard version is uniform throughout the country, and carries one of the following forms:
Hermanus Christoffel Beukes was a Coloured Namibian politician and activist. Beukes was a frequent petitioner of the United Nations because of Apartheid South Africa's actions while Namibia was held under its mandate.
The All People's Party (APP) is a political party in Namibia.
Johannes Gerard Adolph Diergaardt, more commonly known as Hans Diergaardt was a Namibian politician active for nearly a decade after Namibia gained independence. Prior to that, he was elected as the fifth Kaptein of the then-autonomous Baster community at Rehoboth, succeeding Dr. Ben Africa in 1979 after winning a court challenge to the disputed election of 1976.
Rehoboth railway station is a railway station serving the town of Rehoboth in Namibia. It is part of the TransNamib Railway, and is located along the Windhoek to Upington line.
The Federal Convention of Namibia (FCN) was a political party based in Rehoboth, Namibia. It was created in the wake of Namibian independence in 1988 by a merger of several smaller parties and gained a seat in the Namibian Constituent Assembly. After also-ran results in 1994 and 1999 it ceased to be publicly active.
The United People's Movement, formerly known as the Rehoboth Democratic Movement, is a political party based in Rehoboth, Namibia. It formed in March 2010 and is headed by Willem Bismark van Wyk (President) and former leading Democratic Turnhalle Alliance member Piet Junius. The party changed names in August 2010 to the United People's Movement. The party officially registered with the Electoral Commission in July 2010 and contested the November 2010 local and regional elections, where it won 2 seats in the Rehoboth local council and 1 seat on the Okahandja Municipality.
Franz Heinrich Kleinschmidt (1812–1864) was a German missionary and linguist who worked in southern Africa, now in the region of Namibia. He founded the missionary station and town of Rehoboth and together with Carl Hugo Hahn set up the first Rhenish mission station to the Herero people in Gross Barmen. Kleinschmidt is known for his scientific work on the Nama language.
Hermanus van Wyk (1835–1905) was the first Kaptein of the Baster community at Rehoboth in South-West Africa, today Namibia. Under his leadership, the mixed-race Basters moved from the Northern Cape to leave white racial discrimination, and migrated into the interior of what is now central Namibia; the first 30 families settled about 1870. They acquired land from local natives and were joined by additional Baster families over the following years. The Baster people developed their own constitution, called the Paternal Laws. They relied on the herding of sheep, goats and cattle as the basis of their economy.
Gamsberg Nature Reserve is a protected reserve of Namibia, located west of Rehoboth. Within the reserve the flat-topped Gamsberg mountain is found. With its 2347 m above sea level it is said to be the third highest mountain in Namibia. The mountains separating the Namib Desert form the Khomas highlands.
C24 is a secondary route in Namibia that runs from the southern outskirts of Rehoboth.
John McNab was a Namibian politician who served as Rehoboth Baster captain from 1999 until 2020.
