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    symbols. The Oorlam or Orlam people (also known as Orlaam, Oorlammers, Oerlams, or Orlamse Hottentots) are a subtribe of the Nama people, largely assimilated...
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  • Oorlams (also: Oorlands, Oorlans) is a dialect of Afrikaans spoken in the Republic of South Africa and Namibia, by the Oorlam people. It is considered...
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    Muharukua, member of Namibia's Parliament Herero people Nama people Oorlam people Ovambo people Zemba people Himba village about 15 km north of Opuwo, Namibia...
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    of village life.[citation needed] At the dawn of the 19th century, Oorlam people encroached into Namaqualand and Damaraland. They likewise descended...
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    Proto-Bantu language for these words. Herero people Himba people Nama people Oorlam people Namibia: People and Society, CIA Factbook, United States; "about...
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    immigrating Bantu people began to arrive during the Bantu expansion from central Africa. From the late 18th century onward, Oorlam people from Cape Colony...
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    German Namibians (category Namibian people of German descent)
    southern coast of Namibia from Josef Frederiks II, a chief of the local Oorlam people, and founded the city of Lüderitz. The German government, eager to gain...
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    term Orlam (Oorlam) was sometimes applied to persons who could also be known as Baster. Orlams were the Khoi and Coloured (mixed-race) people who spoke...
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    Jonker Afrikaner (category Oorlam people)
    that the formation Jonker Afrikaner ruled over consisted of 1500 ethnic Oorlams, 2000 Hereros, and 2000 Damaras. He is the father of Christian Afrikaner...
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    Heinrich Ernst Göring (category People from Kleve (district))
    been able to settle the constant friction between the Herero and the Oorlam people. The expected vast gold deposits started a gold rush of German settlers...
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  • Jäger, Jaeger, Jagger, Jágr Jager Afrikaner (died 1823), leader of the Oorlam people in South West Africa Jáger and Jager are Slavic names for Eger, a city...
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  • Oorlam people in Namibia Afrikaner cattle, an indigenous South African breed of cattle historically primarily kept and herded by the Khoikhoi people Afrikaner...
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    (later renamed Lüderitz Bay) from Joseph Fredericks, a chief of the Oorlam people, in exchange for 200 rifles, 2,500 German marks, and some lead toy soldiers...
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    Khoi people who began to work around the farms, eventually opted different names for themselves, including Bastards, Basters, Korana, Oorlam or Oorlam Afrikaners...
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    Palgrave Commission (category Colonial people in South West Africa)
    African peoples. In South West Africa, which was as yet uncolonised by Europeans, incursions from the south by mounted gunmen of the Oorlam people began...
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    Khoekhoe (redirect from Khoikhoi people)
    Jonker Afrikaner brought his people into Namaqualand by the mid-19th century, becoming a formidable force for Oorlam domination over the Nama and against...
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    Transvaal. Expansion of the Mfecane and rise of the Northern Ndebele people. The Oorlam people, led by Jonker Afrikaner, leave for south-west Africa. The missionary...
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    German colonization of Africa (category Namibian people of German descent)
    southern coast of Namibia from Josef Frederiks II, a chief of the local Oorlam people, and founded the city of Lüderitz. The German government, eager to gain...
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    Jan Jonker Afrikaner (category Oorlam people)
    "Biographies of Namibian Personalities, A". Retrieved 8 September 2013. "The people behind our street names". The Namibian. 19 March 2018. Dictionary of South...
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    the main settlement of the Khaiǁkhaun (Khauas Nama) subtribe of the Oorlam people until their military defeat against Imperial Germany's Schutztruppe...
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    cows for theft, depending on severity. The traditional court of the Oorlam people at Vaalgras in Namibia's south, where there are few communal cattle...
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  • Jager Afrikaner (category Oorlam people)
    at Blydeverwacht, South-West Africa) was the third Captain of the Orlam people in South West Africa, succeeding his father Klaas Afrikaner at around 1800...
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    Died: Hendrik Witbooi, 75, chief of the Khowesin clan of the Namibian Oorlam people, was killed in battle while leading the native resistance to German...
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    Moses Witbooi (category Oorlam people)
    chief of the Witbooi Nama or ǀKhowesin, a ruling clan of the Oorlam branch of the Nama people. He was the son of Kido Witbooi, founder of the clan. He became...
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    ǃKora Wars (category Oorlam people)
    The ǃKora Wars was a period of raiding by the ǃKora people and subsequent military action by the Boer authorities. The mid-nineteenth century experienced...
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  • Christian Afrikaner (category Oorlam people)
    became leader of the Orlams while still in his twenties, at a time when his people were in constant conflict with the Herero over land and cattle but did not...
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    Otjimbingwe (section People)
    battles of the Herero-Nama War. Andersson and the Herero fought the Oorlam people under Christian Afrikaner. Rhenish missionary Carl Hugo Hahn founded...
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  • ǀKhowesin (category Oorlam people)
    also: Witbooi Nama or Witbooi Orlam) are one of five clans of the Orlam people in Namibia. They originated from Pella in the Cape Colony in South Africa...
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    Hendrik Samuel Witbooi (category Oorlam people)
    Vigne, Randolph (7 July 2006). "Michael Scott, 'a troublemaker' who helped people of Namibia". The Namibian. Kössler, Reinhart (1998). "Traditional communities...
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  • Afrikaners (redirect from Afrikaner people)
    homeland in Europe. Afrikaner culture and people are also commonly referred to as the Afrikaans or Afrikaans people. VOC initially had no intention of establishing...
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