All-White South African Town ‘Is Booming’
Can we move there, anons?
Orania’s population has grown by up to 17 percent annually in recent years, and in 2021 new business creations were up by a quarter, said Strydom. Tourism is one of the main business activities, attracting an average 10,000 visitors annually.
“Suddenly other communities are saying ‘how can we learn from you?’,” he said.
When AFP journalists were in Orania recently, some traditional royal emissaries from the Xhosa and Tswana ethnic groups were in town on a “diplomatic” visit.
“It was important for me to go… Whether right or wrong, there is a success story in there somewhere,” said Gaboilelwe Moroka, 40-year-old chief of the Barolong Boo Seleka, part of Tswana ethnic group in neighbouring Free State province.
“It’s unfortunate these things are overly politicised,” she said.
Boshoff, the grandson of the architect of apartheid Hendrik Verwoerd, argued that Afrikaners created Orania because they needed a place to call home.
“Every African tribe or clan has a place of its own which they use as a reference point,” said Boshoff, who is also a right-wing lawmaker in the national parliament.
Orania has “become part of the South African landscape”, he said, after delivering a Sunday morning sermon at a Dutch Reformed church.
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