During the co-called "Thirst Land Migration" (Dorsland Trek) of 1874 - 1880, some
Boers from Transvaal migrated to Southern Angola.
After conflicts with the Portuguese authorities, some returned to Transvaal, while
others migrated to the South. Here they founded in 1885 the Republic of Upingtonia,
so-called in honor of Thomas Upington, the premier of the Cape Colony whose help
they expected to obtain in this way.
In order to escape conquest by the Herero, the Republic accepted German protection
soon afterwards, becoming part of German South West Africa.
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HEAD OF STATE
President
1885 - 1886 George Diederik P. Prinsloo 1820 - 1888
The Germans didn't however give much support and in 1886 the Republic collapsed.
Most Boers then returned to Transvaal, but some of them went again to Angola. New
problems with the Portuguese authorities led them to remigrate to South West Africa
in 1928 and 1957.
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