William Worthington Jordaan
William Worthington Jordaan (1849 - 1886) was a Journaliste, a hunter, a Politician and Explorateur Métis of the Colonie of the Cape.
Born in Wynberg in South Africa, it explored the territories of the futures Angola, Botswana and Namibia.
In 1877, it met the Dorslandtrekkers (Boer S which had left the republic of the Transvaal and had crossed the Kalahari Desert to go in the South-western African. It bound to them and as far as Angola in the area of Its da Bandeira carried out them.
In 1884, it obtained a territorial concession with Grootfontein and Otavi yielded by Kambonde kaMpingana, the king ovambo of Ndongas.
The April 21st 1884, it is under its command that 45 boers families of Angola then come to be established close to Grootfontein where they proclaim the foundation of the republic of Upingtonia.
The boers then meet the hostility of rival ethnos groups of Ndongas asserting this territory.
The murder of Jordaan with Omandonga the June 30th 1886 apparently on order of the king Nehale lyaMpingana marked the end of the small republic boer. Whereas the colonists set out again in Angola or regained Transvaal, the territory was finally acquired share the German Company of African South-west.
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