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    support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The Oorlam or Orlam people (also known as Orlaam, Oorlammers, Oerlams, or Orlamse Hottentots)...
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    pastoral tribes. It developed rapidly after Jonker Afrikaner, Captain of the Orlam, settled there in 1840 and built a stone church for his community. In the...
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    and Jez Butterworth. Elvis Presley was also mentioned in her 2022 book Orlam and the 2023 single A Child's Question, August. Harvey rejects the notion...
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    February 1785, 18 August 1861, Okahandja) was the fourth Captain of the Orlam in South West Africa, succeeding his father, Jager Afrikaner, in 1823. Soon...
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  • 1823 at Blydeverwacht, South-West Africa) was the third Captain of the Orlam people in South West Africa, succeeding his father Klaas Afrikaner at around...
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    (Berseba Orlam) subtribe formed in 1850, when the Tibot and Goliath families split from the ǃAman to found Berseba. ǀKhowesin (Witbooi Orlam) subtribe...
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  • ǀKhowesin (redirect from Witbooi Orlam)
    (literally queen bees, also: Witbooi Nama or Witbooi Orlam) are one of five clans of the Orlam people in Namibia. They originated from Pella in the Cape...
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    Part of a series on the History of Namibia Khoisan people Bantu expansion Orlam migration Dorsland Trek Traditional kingdom (Uukwambi, Uukwaluudhi, Uukwangali)...
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    Maharero kaTjamuaha (Otjiherero: Maharero, son of Tjamuaha, short: Maharero; c. 1820 – 7 October 1890) was one of the most powerful paramount chiefs of...
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    October 1893 in Bethanie) was a Captain of the ǃAman (Bethanie Orlam), a subtribe of the Orlam. He became Captain when his uncle and stepfather David Christian...
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  • was the leader of a clan that later became known as the Orlam Afrikaners, a sub-group of the Orlam. The clan consisted of mixed-race descendants from indigenous...
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  • become all [she] hoped for it to be". It was inspired by her epic poem "Orlam", and was partially improvised with producers Flood and John Parish, with...
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  • Part of a series on the History of Namibia Khoisan people Bantu expansion Orlam migration Dorsland Trek Traditional kingdom (Uukwambi, Uukwaluudhi, Uukwangali)...
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    Part of a series on the History of Namibia Khoisan people Bantu expansion Orlam migration Dorsland Trek Traditional kingdom (Uukwambi, Uukwaluudhi, Uukwangali)...
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    (2014), Dorset Dialect, Sheffield: Bradwell Books, ISBN 9781910551011 Harvey, PJ (2022), Orlam, London: Picador, pp. 283–297, ISBN 978-1-5290-6311-0...
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    retreat and a fortress to fend off possible pursuits by Cape authorities. The Orlam Afrikaner tribe left the place in the 1820s but it continued to be inhabited...
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  • (died 16 February 1907) was a leader of the ǃAman (Bethanie Orlam), a subtribe of the Orlam people, in the southern area of German South-West Africa, today's...
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  • Hendrina Martha Afrikaner (1952–2011) was Chief of the Orlam Afrikaners in Namibia, the first woman to occupy that position. Afrikaner was the great-granddaughter...
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    would later develop into Afrikaans) already lived in the country alongside Orlam tribes and mixed-race Rehoboth Basters. South Africa took over administration...
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    leadership of Samuel Maharero, they had achieved supremacy over the Nama and Orlam peoples in a series of conflicts that had in their later stages, seen the...
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    in their own right. The term Orlam (Oorlam) was sometimes applied to persons who could also be known as Baster. Orlams were the Khoi and Coloured (mixed-race)...
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    Part of a series on the History of Namibia Khoisan people Bantu expansion Orlam migration Dorsland Trek Traditional kingdom (Uukwambi, Uukwaluudhi, Uukwangali)...
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  • Afrikaner and Beetje Boois. He became the fifth Captain of the mixed-race Orlam Afrikaners in South-West Africa, after the death of his father in 1861....
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    Afrikaner and Beetje Boois. He became the sixth and last Captain of the Orlam Afrikaners in South West Africa, succeeding his brother Christian Afrikaner...
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  • ǃGaruhamab, born before 1760, died after 1800) was the second Captain of the Orlam Afrikaners, first in the Cape Colony, then in South-West Africa. Klaas became...
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  • different factions of the traditional leadership of the ǀHaiǀKhaua (Berseba Orlam) subtribe of the Nama people. He supported a group contesting the legitimacy...
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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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    there. In 1864, the Nama abandoned the area as a result of an attack by the Orlam Afrikaners. Rehoboth means "streets" in Hebrew. The arrival of the ǀHôaǀaran...
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    colonists credited Orlam resistance with what they perceived to be an "ontological predisposition" within the detribalized Orlam people, which allegedly...
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  • Katutura suburb, and is named for Jan Jonker Afrikaner, Captain of the Orlam Afrikaners in South West Africa. Jan Jonker Afrikaner High School was established...
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