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William Worthington Jordan
William Worthington Jordan was a Cape Colony trader and explorer in south-western Africa. In 1885 he bought land around Grootfontein from the Ndonga king Kambonde for the Dorsland trekkers, who founded the Republic of Upingtonia there; he was murdered in Ovamboland in 1886 and the republic soon collapsed.
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