'An indictment of South Africa': whites-only town Orania is booming

The Guardian ^ | 10/24/19

[Altura Ct.]

Twenty-five years after apartheid, black people cannot live and work in this small South African city

October in Orania can be charming. When the sun sets, long ribbons of burnt orange settle on the horizon. The flies and mosquitoes that come with the summer’s oppressive heat haven’t arrived yet. It is Magdalene Kleynhans’ favourite time of year. “You can sit outside until late into the night,” says the businesswoman, whose family spends much of their time outdoors. Her children fish from the banks of the Orange River whenever they choose. Kleynhans leaves the house unlocked. “It’s a good life. It’s a big privilege.”

But there is much more to this small Northern Cape town than the bucolic ideal painted by Kleynhans. Incredibly, 25 years after the fall of apartheid, Orania is a place for white people only.

Orania represents downright hostility to the idea of a single, united, non-racial country Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, author

Kleynhans runs one of Orania’s biggest enterprises: a call centre whose business is recruiting and retaining members for Solidariteit, a trade union primarily for Afrikaner workers, and Afriforum, a self-styled “civil rights” movement. Afriforum recently met with US president Donald Trump’s administration and Tucker Carlson of Fox Nows to tell them that Afrikaners are facing a widely discredited genocide. Both have made extensive investments in Orania’s construction boom. Oranians claim the town is a cultural project, not a racial one. Only Afrikaners are allowed to live and work there to preserve Afrikaner culture, the argument goes.

[MinorityRepublican]

Under Apartheid South Africa, they were addicted to cheap labor. Now they’re paying the price. If I’m a White South African, I would had left the country 25 years ago.

[Albion Wilde]

I think you’ve got the species reversed. Dogs were domesticated from European wolves. Dogs like to work and to please their masters. They have earned the nickname “man’s best friend.”

Cats, on the other hand, were domesticated about a millenia after dogs, from African wildcats. Cats make a point of not obeying, expect to be served, sleep most of the day and prowl at night, and are vicious when threatened.

[gogeo]

I swear, white people could make a town in the middle of a desert, and everyone would have a screaming fit about it.

It's called "Israel."

[Verginius Rufus]

I thought bammy went to South Africa in order to take selfies at Mandela’s funeral.

[Jewbacca]

Yeah, it’s called “Tel Aviv”.

[StAnDeliver]

"Oh, so it's the print version of CNN?"

Without airports. I read Guardian for same reason - it's a laugh.