The history of the Rehoboth Basters goes back to the settlement of the first Dutch colonists under Jan van Riebeeck, who landed in at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652.The European settlers came into contact with the indigenous Khoesan people. The children born from this association whose mixed blood origins were obvious, were called ‘coloureds or bastards’, giving rise to two culturally separate groups of people. Today the Baster community consists of approximately 72 000 people. Their home language is Afrikaans, and their way of life is similar to that of their Afrikaner forebears.
Source: People of Namibia (JS Malan), Namibia Holiday & Travel