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Orania, South Africa's white only town
Inside South Africa's whites-only town of Orania
Gravitas | Orania: A 'whites-only' town in South Africa
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South Africa today is a powerful and chaotic place. One of the wealthiest and most influential nations in Africa, in 2010 it outbid Egypt and Morocco to host the FIFA World Cup, probably the most important global sporting event (and money laundering scheme) outside of the Olympics. It is tied with Ethiopia for the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Africa. However, when compared to other countries, South Africa has notably high rates of violent crime and has a reputation for consistently having one of the highest murder rates in the world. The country also experiences high rates of organized crime relative to other countries.
Orania 1 - Identity Politics
Orania 2 - The Last Outpost
Orania 3 - The History
Orania 4 - Boris
Orania 5 - Bridges
Orania 6 - Republic
Orania 7 - Cultures
Orania 8 - Identity
Orania is a town in South Africa founded and populated solely by Afrikaners, the descendants of Dutch immigrants going back as far as the 1650’s. The small town lies by the Orange River, one of few sources of water in a vast and remote desert. Orania has grown infamous these days because they do not allow non-Afrikaner people to live or work in it. As it lies in Africa, Orania has gotten the reputation of being a “whites-only” town, despite the fact that most whites would be rejected from living there.
Orania is an all-White Afrikaans community with a population of approximately 3,000 people. The town has its own government, laws, and regulations, which are separate from the South African government.
Economy: Orania is self-sufficient and has its own economy, with residents working in various industries such as farming, construction, and services. They also have their own currency, the Ora, which can be used alongside the South African Rand.
Services: Orania has its own services, including healthcare, education, and infrastructure, which are managed by the town’s government.
Municipal Status: Orania is not governed by the Thembelihle Municipality, but instead has its own Transitional Representative Council, which oversees service provision for the town.
Cultural Heritage: Orania has several museums and monuments, including the Orania Cultural History Museum, the Hendrik Verwoerd museum, and the Koeksister Monument, which celebrate the town’s Afrikaner heritage.
There technically is no racial barrier to entry. Anyone who identifies as Afrikaner, speaks Afrikans, attends their church and abides by their ethical code is eligible for application to live and work in Orania. The town leaders insist that there are no racial requirements, and that people of any race who meet the criteria are welcome.
Orania was originally settled in 1991 as the first of what was to be a string of Afrikaner towns that would stretch to the Atlantic and ultimately establish an independent homeland called a Volkstaat in western South Africa’s harsh desert. This idea was very fringe at the time, but the white majority government allowed them to build the first town, assuming the project would fail. However, Orania did not fail, and continues on today with a population of a few thousand people. Orania as a town is also a private company, choosing to sell land only to those they deem acceptable. In modern times they have abandoned their ambitions for a Volkstaat, and instead choose to exist simply to preserve their culture and language.
Afrikaners were the source of African Apartheid, and the Dutch are superstars in committing mass atrocities against the continent of Africa, and creating artificial scarcity and monopolies at their expense. They dominated South Africa politically for decades with an iron fist until majority rule was reestablished in the 1990’s.
The town even prints and uses its own currency, the Ora, which is a major sin in our centrally-banked world. However, the Ora has something most currencies do not: an expiration date. All Ora notes have a 3-year life, making it more of a coupon.
A quote from a lighter-skinned South African lady…
“South Africa is a great country with a lot of problems - economic, social, racial, crime, huge disparities between rich and poor - to name a few. However it is gritty, beautiful and real. South Africans of all races are generally warm, friendly, honest and bold. I love this country and its people and would hate to leave.
“I am a white South African - my family was classified as white during the days of Apartheid although there is definitely some mixed blood in my genes. That is the problem - we legally classified all South Africans into racial groups depending on how light your skin was, how curly your hair was, the language you spoke. And we treated anyone who wasn’t ‘white’ terribly. That is our burden to bear.
“I was born in the 60′s and grew up during Apartheid. My parents were pretty enlightened but we were privileged merely for the color of our skin. I remember some of the laws that we lived with and passively accepted - white only signs, pass laws (if you weren’t white you needed to have a legal document, “dompas” to be in a white neighborhood after dark. I remember the arrests, the death of Steve Biko, Nelson Mandela and others being on Robben Island, the forced removal of families from district six among many other horrific events and laws that are too numerous to mention. Again this is my burden, the laws were passively accepted by my family and, by default, me.
“I am now in my mid fifties, my husband and I own a lovely house in a great neighborhood, we have good medical (expensive though) - we have a good life. Crime is a worry but we are used to being hyper-aware all the time. The sad reality for me now is that I feel vulnerable as a white South African - I don’t feel safe. The amount of anti-white sentiment seems huge and despite the burden that we carry I am so tired of feeling my whiteness. I understand as best I can the anger that anyone who is not white must still feel but I have no idea what to do about it. I yearn for a time when we no longer see race, religion, sexual orientation, language as what defines us. I would love to be seen as a South African and not a white South African - unfortunately I don’t think that will ever happen.” - Natalie Kehl
THAT’S A WHOLE DIFFERENT RIDDLE
MELLOW EDM
Pics from my very first EDM show! Also got a chance to catch Mellow Cassette and 12 Rods live!
OPENER
I love the kind of woman that will actually just kill me
INTERMISSION
Longy - Drip Fed Internet Blues
CLOSER
PRESHOW
Sista Fista - Good Girls
Bonked - B4TS 11⚡︎25⚡︎2024 [Utopian Judy]
Stefan Soltero - the cover up
Øystein Berge - A Busy Day
Namo Maitri - About That (Have My Money)
Miles Fonda - Emo Stormtrooper
Bitpunk.fm - Thank you cards
The Synthesatsers - B4TS 11⚡︎25⚡︎2024 [Baby Bed Bugs]
Fletcher and Blaney - Autistic Girl
White Triangles - Packets
The Satellite Skirmish - Herbivore - Empty Water Bottles
The Satellite Skirmish - Survival Guide - Bad Little Seed
12 Rods and Mellow Cassette - I Wish You Were A Girl - 12 Rods
12 Rods and Mellow Cassette - Spector - Mellow Cassette
The Synthesatsers - B4TS 11⚡︎25⚡︎2024 [Disco Lasers]
Circle the Earth - Too Many Pieces