The clan consisted of mixed-race descendants from indigenous Khoikhoi and slaves from Madagascar, India, and Indonesia.
[1] The group around Oude Ram was the first to refer to themselves not as being from a specific tribe but to use the continental description, African.
While Oude Ram probably died soon after the conviction, his son Afrikaner became one of the first prisoners of Robben Island in 1761.
After Oude Ram had died and his son Klaas trekked with the clan to South-West Africa, the group dominated the area that today is central Namibia for almost 100 years.
This rule and domination started some time after Klaas Afrikaner and his sons moved to South-West Africa in the 1770s[5] and founded the fortress ǁKhauxaǃnas at the end of the 18th century,[6] and it ended with the death of Christian Afrikaner, Oude Ram's great grandson, in 1863.