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Mar 05, 2010 at 05:20 AM |
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The Rehoboth Griqua Atlas is a recently published book that provides an overview of the history of the Rehoboth Basters. It features many maps and previously unpublished photos about the 140 year long history of the Rehoboth Baster community and the state of Rehoboth.
The book is written by Jeroen Zandberg who also authored the short book ‘Nation and Image building by the Rehoboth Basters’ in 2005.
The Rehoboth Griqua Atlas is a valuable addition to the bibliography on the history of the Rehoboth Basters and is available at Lulu publishing. See link: https://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=8230192 or click on the icon.
Besides presenting the entire history of the Rehoboth Basters in an illustrated fashion it also places it in the context of the various other Baster and Griqua states that existed in the 18th through 20th century in Southern Africa.
Several pages are available here. Please click on one of the two pictures below to open the pdf files:
 
Sam Khubis (3 pages 800KB) Rehoboth 1863-1915 (7pages 1,5 MB)
More information including the table of contents is below:
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Who are the Rehoboth Basters ? |
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Mar 05, 2010 at 12:00 AM |
 The Community of the Rehoboth Basters numbers some 35,000 people, living in an area of 14.216 square kilometres south of Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. They settled in their lands in the early 1870's. They developed their own legislation, years before the Germans installed their colonial rule over Namibia in 1885 and as such they constitute an indigenous people in present-day Namibia. |
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Human Rights Committee Verdict on Baster Language Rights 2000 |
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Oct 01, 2009 at 12:00 AM |
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On 6 September 2000 the United Nations Human Rights Committee gave a verdict that the government of Namibia violated the rights of the Rehoboth Baster community by refusing to communicate with them in Afrikaans.
Click here to open the full document in PDF
A third party opinion on this verdict can be found here
Part of the HRC statement reads as follows:
“10.10 The authors have also claimed that the lack of language legislation in Namibia has had as a consequence that they have been denied the use of their mother tongue in administration, justice, education and public life. The Committee notes that the authors have shown that the State party has instructed civil servants not to reply to the authors' written or oral communications with the authorities in the Afrikaans language, even when they are perfectly capable of doing so. These instructions barring the use of Afrikaans do not relate merely to the issuing of public documents but even to telephone conversations. In the absence of any response from the State party the Committee must give due weight to the allegation of the authors that the circular in question is intentionally targeted against the possibility to use Afrikaans when dealing with public authorities. Consequently, the Committee finds that the authors, as Afrikaans speakers, are victims of a violation of article 26 of the Covenant.
11. The Human Rights Committee, acting under article 5, paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political rights, is of the view that the facts before it disclose a violation of article 26 of the Covenant.
12. Under article 2, paragraph 3(a), of the Covenant, the State party is under the obligation to provide the authors and the other members of their community an effective remedy by allowing its officials to respond in other languages than the official one in a nondiscriminatory manner. The State party is under an obligation to ensure that similar violations do not occur in the future.” |
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