The Bondelswarts are a Nama ethnic group of

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living in the extreme south of

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, in an area centred on the town of Warmbad.''Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts'', John S. Lowry, p.64

History

They rose up against German colonial rule in the Nama War 1903-1906. They were brutally repressed. They inhabit an arid region around

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and the

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. In 1922 they were involved in the Bondelswarts Rebellion, a revolt against a tax on dogs, which was violently repressed.

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