Albert Mouton was the third Captain of the Rehoboth Baster in

South West Africa South West Africa ( af, Suidwes-Afrika; german: Südwestafrika; nl, Zuidwest-Afrika) was a territory under South African administration from 1915 to 1990, after which it became modern-day Namibia. It bordered Angola (Portuguese colony before 1 ...

from 1924 to 1925. Mouton succeeded

Cornelius van Wyk Cornelius van Wyk (died 24 April 1924) was the second Captain of the Rehoboth Baster, serving from 1914 until his death in 1924. Life and death Van Wyk succeeded his father, Hermanus, upon his death in 1905. However, the German colonial governme ...

on April 26, 1924. Mouton's tenure as captain was short-lived, having been overthrown on 5 April 1925, after the South African invasion of the

Rehoboth area The Rehoboth area, historically the Free Republic of Rehoboth (German: ''Freie Republik Rehoboth'') is an unrecognized state in central Namibia, inhabited by the indigenous Baster people. Between 1979 and 1989, the area was a South West African b ...

. As a result of the Baster Rebellion of 1925, the office of the Baster Captain was abolished and the special rights and ''de facto'' independence of the area revoked. It was not until 1977 that the fourth Captain of the Baster, Ben Africa, was elected.

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