• rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The ǀKhowesin (literally queen bees, also: Witbooi Nama or Witbooi Orlam) are one of...
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    Hendrik Witbooi (August 29, 1830 – 29 October 1905) was a chief of the ǀKhowesin people, a sub-tribe of the Khoikhoi. He led the Nama people during their...
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    Tibot and Goliath families split from the ǃAman to found Berseba. The ǀKhowesin (Witbooi Orlam) subtribe was the last to take up settlement in Namibia...
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    Khaxa-tsûs. It received its name from Kido Witbooi first Kaptein of the ǀKhowesin. ǃGamiǂnun (Bondelswarts) at Warmbad ǂAonin (Southern Topnaars) at Rooibank...
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  • ǂA-ǁêib ǃGâmemab, (c. 1780 – 31 December 1875) was the first Kaptein of the ǀKhowesin (Witbooi Nama), a subtribe of the Orlam of South-West Africa, present-day...
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    ǃNansemab, (1 June 1906 – 29 July 1978) was the sixth Kaptein of the ǀKhowesin, a subtribe of the Orlam, in the area of South-West Africa (SWA), today's...
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    Khaxa-tsûs. It received its name from Kido Witbooi first Kaptein of the ǀKhowesin. Khaiǁkhaun (Red Nation) at Hoachanas, the main group and the oldest Nama...
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  • in Windhoek) was a Namibian politician and the seventh Captain of the ǀKhowesin clan. A member of SWAPO from 1976 until his death, Witbooi brought with...
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    and Otavi Ukongo Petrus Dâuredaman Brandberg and vicinity Elias Taniseb ǀKhowesin (Witbooi Nama) Gibeon Christian Rooi (acting) Bondelswarts vacant Soromaas...
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    against the Germans. He often sided with Hendrik Witbooi, leader of the ǀKhowesin (Witbooi Orlam), and both were wanted for a 3,000 marks (ℳ) ransom. The...
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  • Uukwambi, national hero Hendrik Witbooi (c. 1830–1905), chief of the ǀKhowesin, national hero Job Amupanda, youth activist who started the Affirmative...
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    After the Herero and Namaqua Genocide 1904/05, Isaak Witbooi of the ǀKhowesin (Witbooi Orlam) moved to Naosanabis—the Kaiǀkhauan clan had at that time...
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  • ǃNansemab, (25 May 1865 – 16 October 1928) was the fourth Kaptein of the ǀKhowesin, a subtribe of the Orlam, in Gibeon, South-West Africa (today's Namibia)...
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    and Namaqua War of 1904–1907 Hendrik Witbooi (1830–1905), chief of the ǀKhowesin and fighter against the colonial oppression of the German Empire in German...
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  • became part of Namaland, forming its most western point. Members of the ǀKhowesin (Witbooi Orlam) tribe were forcibly resettled here. They established Edward...
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    led the opposition to Maharero. Also faced with repeated attacks by the ǀKhowesin, a subtribe of the Khoikhoi under Hendrik Witbooi, Maharero signed a protection...
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    which since then is their clan's main settlement. After supporting the ǀKhowesin (Witbooi Nama) under Hendrik Witbooi in their eventually unsuccessful...
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  • chieftaincy of the Red Nation in 1880, Hendrik Witbooi, leader of the ǀKhowesin (Witbooi Nama), had risen to considerable power. Witbooi was an archenemy...
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  • between the Red Nation and other Nama clans. Hendrik Witbooi, leader of the ǀKhowesin (Witbooi Nama) was an archenemy of Manasse. His superiority in power forced...
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  • Khaxa-tsûs, received its name from Kido Witbooi, first Kaptein of the ǀKhowesin, a subtribe of the Orlam. He arrived with his followers in about 1850...
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    chieftaincy, Manasse ǃNoreseb had the powerful Hendrik Witbooi, leader of the ǀKhowesin (Witbooi Nama), as enemy. In 1882 he therefore signed a peace treaty with...
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    February 1888, Gibeon, Namibia) was the second chief of the Witbooi Nama or ǀKhowesin, a ruling clan of the Oorlam branch of the Nama people. He was the son...
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