Welcome to Orania - White Town in South Africa

[SilverKnight]

This is Orania. Lovely climate.






If they like the climate in Orania, no wonder they want the Northern Cape! That's why the Northern Cape is so already so overpopulated. You can see in the pictures just how crowded it is there.





Would I go live there? If it was just the Northern Cape without the Right Wing Nationalist Afrikaners, yes. I wouldn't move to a seaside resort for free if it was full of them.

I love dry arid climates



And oh, I'm a bit surprised you being white South African not wanting an independent or at least autonomous region for yourselves. ^^ maybe is a misunderstanding

[Kazimiera]

And oh, I'm a bit surprised you being white South African not wanting an independent or at least autonomous region for yourselves. ^^ maybe is a misunderstanding

White English-speaking South African living in 2013 - yes.
Right-wing backward Afrikaner still reliving the 1899 Boer War - no.

[SilverKnight]

White English-speaking South African living in 2013 - yes.
Right-wing backward Afrikaner still reliving the 1899 Boer War - no.

You're a very interesting, strong and beautiful character dear Kazimiera

[RussiaPrussia]

Well it is clear that this project is solely based on 'race'. What about afrikaners with 'black' admixture? Are they seen as 'white' too? Are they allowed to live in this village? Trying to build a village just based on the 'race factor' is racist. Just racist.

no one forces you to live there. Youre quite racist with being so obsessed for people who want to stay with their own. Its always funny how you have kim yong ill as your avatar, north korea is the most homogeneous country in the world you hypocrite. How about you move your ass from germany to there to enrich them with diversity

[Algernon]

I love dry arid climates



And oh, I'm a bit surprised you being white South African not wanting an independent or at least autonomous region for yourselves. ^^ maybe is a misunderstanding

The problem is I suppose that in general, there is a misconception that just because a group of people happen to be the same race, they automatically share the same norms and values. Here in South Africa, like everywhere else in the world this is not the case. Within each group there are a multitude of different and sometimes conflicting ideas regarding culture, politics, ideology etc. I'd even go so far as to say that even amongst the Afrikaner, the right-wing supremacist is in the minority and even if they were to get their own homeland I seriously doubt that all would go there. As for the English white South African, historically seen as being the more liberal of the whites, some of them would join in their little state.

[Styggnacke]

lol 'unite our white people'

I still don't get how some people can be so obsessed with their own 'race'.

You don't think they might want to stick together, because of this?

[Methusalem]

You don't think they might want to stick together, because of this?

Well that would be an understandable point.

[SilverKnight]

I wonder what would be of this place... let say 2 decades from now.

[Prisoner Of Ice]

You don't think they might want to stick together, because of this?

Yay south african blacks have ended apartheid I'm so happy justice has been served.

[Kazimiera]

I wonder what would be of this place... let say 2 decades from now.

Before we even get to 20 years from now, we first have to get 5 years from now. National elections are coming up in 2014, and although the ANC will win this round, the EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters) is going to be strong in 2018 and this is the one to watch out for.

Julius Malema has a far-left Marxist-Leninist agenda and he is gathering support rapidly among the young black generation. He launched the party this year, and he already has a big following. Not big enough to make a difference (or at least minimally) in the 2014 election. But by 2018 he is going to be very strong.

He has publicly stated that South Africa needs a leader like Fidel Castro and Robert Mugabe. And he is going to be the person to be that leader. He is young, he's charismatic, very radical and the people like him. He is promising them what the ANC has never been able to give them. The ANC is crumbling from within and the people are disillusioned. He is giving them hope. But he will go the same route as Mugabe and Castro. I don't think that the general voting population who he appeals to fully comprehends what this means for the country.

The democracy which Nelson Mandela fought for is quickly (and has already to a large degree) gone out of the window.

It is a very disconcerting scenario.