Captains of the Rehoboth Baster

The Baster Council, and the Rehoboth population, still elect a Captain today, but this has no autonomy or powers associated with it, like the other traditional leaderships under the Namibian constitution.

The first Captain (Kaptein) was Hermanus van Wyk, who led the Baster nation to Rehoboth in German South West Africa from the Northern Cape of South Africa to escape the rampant racial discrimination.

[1] Upon the death of van Wyk, the German colonial government established a separate council.

Diergaardt's tenure oversaw the independence of Namibia in March 1990, and the subsequent loss of traditional leadership powers under the new constitution.

Dap Izaaks served as interim Captain until the election of John McNab in 1999, who would oversee the Rehoboth Basters' admission to the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO).