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==History==
The original name of the village in [[Khoekhoegowab]] (Damara/Nama) is ǃUri ǃKhubus (''white fountain'').<ref name=abbatoir>{{cite news|title=Abattoir a Glimpse of Hope Where There is None|last= Kangueehi|first=Kuvee|newspaper=[[New Era (Namibia)|New Era]]|date=10 March 2005|url=http://www.newera.com.na/article.php?articleid=5976|archiveurl=http://archive.is/2Ugnk|archivedate=13 April 2013}}</ref>
The settlement was the place of the ''Battle of Witvlei'' in the [[First Herero-Nama War]] in March 1864. [[Maharero]], with the help of the hunter [[Frederick Thomas Green|Frederick Green]] (known among the [[Herero people|Ovaherero]] as Kerina), led a contingent of 1,400 Ovaherero from [[Otjimbingwe]] against the [[Oorlam people|Orlam Afrikaners]] under [[Jan Jonker Afrikaner]]. Afrikaner's forces were defeated and fled, although a number of other battles followed elsewhere.<ref>{{cite book
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|publisher=Scarecrow Press
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|page=153}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Maharero kaTjamuaha: The Consolidator of the Ovaherero Polity (1820-1890) Part II|last=Shampapi|first=Shiremo|newspaper=New Era|date= 14 October 2011|url=http://www.newera.com.na/article.php?articleid=41166|archiveurl=http://archive.is/7PUJP|archivedate=13 April 2013}}</ref>
==People==
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