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    Jonker Afrikaner (3 February 1785, 18 August 1861, Okahandja) was the fourth Captain of the Orlam in South West Africa, succeeding his father, Jager Afrikaner...
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    Gibeon. Oude Ram Afrikaner Klaas Afrikaner Jager Afrikaner Jonker Afrikaner Christian Afrikaner Jan Jonker Afrikaner Hendrina Afrikaner Amraal Lambert Kido...
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    Jan Jonker Afrikaner (August 2 1820 – August 10 1889) was the second oldest son of Jonker Afrikaner and Beetje Boois. He became the sixth and last Captain...
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  • Jonker Afrikaner (c. 1785–1861), Namibian Orlam leader Jan Jonker Afrikaner (c. 1820–1861), Namibian Orlam leader, son of Jonker Jan Jonker Afrikaner...
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    spring known to the local pastoral tribes. It developed rapidly after Jonker Afrikaner, Captain of the Orlam, settled there in 1840 and built a stone church...
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  • After his death in 1823 his son Jonker Afrikaner succeeded him as Captain of the Afrikaner Orlams. Jager Afrikaner was born around 1769 in a region of...
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  • Jonker Afrikaner is a senior secondary school in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. It is situated in the Katutura suburb, and is named for Jan Jonker...
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    into other languages. Born into an Afrikaner family with four hundred year old roots in South Africa, Ingrid Jonker grew up in a broken home. After the...
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    Tjamuaha to Windhoek to stay with Jonker Afrikaner, Captain of the Oorlam Afrikaners. Tjamuaha was an ally of Jonker Afrikaner until his death in 1861, albeit...
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  • great-granddaughter of Jan Jonker Afrikaner. She grew up in Hoachanas and Okahandja where she attended the Augustineum. Afrikaner worked as a nurse when she...
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    of the tribe. His uncle, Jonker Afrikaner, was also a well-known Nama Chief, and opponent of Hendrik Witbooi. Jonker Afrikaner was in turn the son of the...
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    emigrant Oorlams (including the band led by the outlaw Jager Afrikaner and his son Jonker Afrikaner in the Transgariep) retained links to Oorlam communities...
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  • leadership of Jonker Afrikaner, the Oorlams used their superior weapons to take control of the best grazing land. In the 1830s Jonker Afrikaner concluded...
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    of central and northern South West Africa. Under the leadership of Jonker Afrikaner, who died in 1861, and then later under the leadership of Samuel Maharero...
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  • Christian Afrikaner (before 1820 – 15 June 1863) was the oldest son of Jonker Afrikaner and Beetje Boois. He became the fifth Captain of the mixed-race...
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    and rise of the Northern Ndebele people. The Oorlam people, led by Jonker Afrikaner, leave for south-west Africa. The missionary John Philip founds Philippolis...
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  • Namibian people are buried in Okahandja, among them Maharero, Jan Jonker Afrikaner, Hosea Kutako and Clemens Kapuuo. The population of Okahandja is growing...
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    it then, ǀAiǁgams) in 1842 and was well received by Jonker Afrikaner, Captain of the Orlam Afrikaner tribe residing there. When in 1844 Wesleyan missionaries...
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    state in the area of modern Windhoek, under their dynamic leader Jan Jonker Afrikaner. In 1868, a second group, the Basters, began to push north into South...
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  • captain who led the early resistance against Germans in the late 1800s. Jonker Afrikaner was the founder of the first rudimentary state in the territory of...
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    occupied the completely destroyed settlement of Windhoek (founded by Jonker Afrikaner decades earlier). Upon Maharero's death in October, his son Samuel...
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  • Wesleyan missionaries arrived in Windhoek in 1844 at the invitation of Jonker Afrikaner, Rhenish missionaries Carl Hugo Hahn and Franz Heinrich Kleinschmidt...
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  • Dames du Temps Jadis, Breytenbach compared Afrikaner political dissident poets Peter Blum, Ingrid Jonker, and himself to unfaithful lovers, who had betrayed...
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    is the oldest part of the town, having been established in 1840 by Jonker Afrikaner and his 800-strong group. He had requested the services of a missionary...
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  • Bay in 1825. Between 1830 and 1860, Amraal Lambert and his cousin Jonker Afrikaner controlled much of southern and central South-West Africa. Together...
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    which sent him to Southwestern Africa in response to the request of Jonker Afrikaner, chief of the Oorlam tribe residing there. He arrived in Windhoek in...
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  • had been invited by Jonker Afrikaner to travel to Windhoek. Their fellow Nama chiefs feared that an alliance of Jonker Afrikaner and Kido Witbooi, both...
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    Maharero’s body and its funeral on Okahandja next to the grave of Jonker Afrikaner. Kutako also founded the Truppenspieler association. It was intended...
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  • Wind-Hoek (windy corner). Another theory suggests that Captain Jan Jonker Afrikaner named Windhoek after the Winterhoek Mountains, at Tulbagh in South...
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    André Brink (category Afrikaner people)
    taught English at the University of Cape Town. In the 1960s Brink, Ingrid Jonker, Etienne Leroux and Breyten Breytenbach were key figures in the significant...
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