Hermanus van WykThe first council of the Baster, 1872, presenting the community's Vaderlike Wette (constitution, the book on the table). Hermanus van Wyk is the third from left.
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 (Vaderlike Wette in Afrikaans). They relied on the herding of sheep, goats and cattle as the basis of their economy.
Outnumbered by the native Damara, Nama and Herero peoples, the Basters had periodic conflict with them in the late 1870s and 1880s, when the latter two groups were also in conflict. They suffered losses of valuable livestock. After the German Empire annexed South-West Africa as a colony, van Wyk negotiated a kind of autonomy for Rehoboth and the land around it through a protection treaty with the Germans in 1885. In the early 1900s, the Basters joined the Germans in a colonial war against the Nama and Herero. Since Namibia gained independence in 1990, the Basters lost considerable land. While the community is influenced by their Paternal Laws, the area is under a local town council.
HermanusvanWyk (1835–1905) was the first Kaptein of the Baster community at Rehoboth in South-West Africa, today Namibia. Under his leadership, the mixed-race...
process of the German annexation of South West Africa, Baster Kaptein HermanusvanWyk signed a 'Treaty of Protection and Friendship' with the German Empire...
Cornelius vanWyk (died 24 April 1924) was the second Captain of the Rehoboth Baster, serving from 1914 until his death in 1924. VanWyk succeeded his...
mutual friend introduced Hermanus to award-winning German director Roland Emmerich who played a crucial role in Hermanus's career by giving him a private...
Lesotho is renamed British Basutoland. The Basters, led by Captain HermanusvanWyk, leave for Rehoboth in south-west Africa. Paarl Boys' High School opens...
leaderships under the Namibian constitution. The first Captain (Kaptein) was HermanusvanWyk, who led the Baster nation to Rehoboth in German South West Africa...
Rehoboth, South West Africa in 1870. The Rehoboth Basters, led by HermanusvanWyk, formed their community on rigid "constitutional and religious beliefs...
business trip to Cape Town. When Hahn's actions came to light, Captain HermanusvanWyk and his fellow members of the Baster Council ordered Hahn and Steyn...
T113208959A185534734.en Media related to Protea compacta at Wikimedia Commons vanWyk, B. and vanWyk, P. 1997. Field Guide to trees of South Africa. Struik, Cape Town...
Welman, E. Retief, K. L. Immelman, G. Germishuizen, B. J. Pienaar, M. VanWyk & A. Nicholas, 1987, Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa, 2(1–2), pages 1–152 (pt...
Unspoken Heritage of Coloured People. Indaba. ISBN 978-1-947599-06-2. VanWyk, Chris (2006). Shirley, Goodness & Mercy: A Childhood in Africa. Picador...
Film Group. Bloemfontein. Retrieved 27 December 2016. Ames 2008, p. 117. "Hermanus Set to Fly High at Fest". The Star (Johannesburg), 12 September 2009. Retrieved...
the Leader of the Opposition, in 1977. From 4 March 1920, Sir Cornelius Hermanus Wessels. Afterwards served as the State President of South Africa, from...
of Wesleyan Mission. AcadSA. pp. 97–98. ISBN 978-1-920212-29-2. vanWyk, Ben-Erik; van Oudtshoorn, Gericke N (1999). Medicinal Plants of South Africa....
journalist (1789–1834) N.S. Puleng, poet and author (born 1958) N. P. vanWyk Louw, poet (1906–1970) Mongane Wally Serote, poet, activist and politician...
Flank Theuns Stofberg added two tries to one each by Gerrie Germishuys, Hermanus Potgieter, Dawie Snyman, and Barry Wolmarans (on debut) for the Springboks...
Jacobus Hermanus Pieters Geers, commonly known as Kendell Geers, is a South African conceptual artist. Geers lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Kendell...
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