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

[chkmeout]

But white people colonized it and fukked it up though regardless.

I'm Nigerian too...why we act like whitey aint fukk up our shyt just as bad?

True that but ain't know settlement like SA has.

 

[MikelArteta]

As a Nigerian with all the problems we have I will forever be grateful that White people never settled in our country.

lebanese , germans and China man inching in though

 

[ATownD19]

Where’s Mugabe when you need him

 

[ahdsend]

Drone photographs of South Africa show racist architecture - CNN

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[Bawon Samedi]

South Africans will slaughter poor ass Black immigrants but shyt like Orania has NOT been razed to the ground?

 

[CHICAGO]

THEY SHOULD GIVE THEM THAT BLACK WALLSTREET STIMULUS...





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[PikaDaDon]

Orania is owned by the Vluytjeskraal Aandeleblok (Vluytjeskraal Share Block) company which, together with a series of internally elected bodies, is responsible for the town’s municipal decision making.


People who want to live in Orania buy shares in the Vluytjeskraal Aandeleblok, instead of freehold. The screening of prospective shareholders allows for tight control. Buyers undergo extensive vetting, central to which is their fidelity to Afrikaans language and culture, a commitment to employing only white Afrikaners, and a string of conservative Christian undertakings. Unmarried couples, for instance, cannot live together.

African-Americans are the wealthiest in the African diaspora. Despite all of our problems in the US we could easily do something like this. There's nothing stopping us from rebooting black wall street.

 

[MischievousMonkey]

Get out ya feelings. That anger is directed towards white supremacist and the bootlickers that support it. c00ns foreigns and domestic ain’t shyt and should be treated as the enemy.

The same white supremacists and bootlickers get no smoke and have been thriving in South Africa since they were there. Where are the crowds invading the city and burning stores? Lynching? Asking for them to go back where they came from?

No where. The anger of the population is directed towards African immigrants though. It is the mindset of the totally dominated

I'm not in my feelings. Sorry if truth hurts.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

African-Americans are the wealthiest in the African diaspora. Despite all of our problems in the US we could easily do something like this. There's nothing stopping us from rebooting black wall street.

I thought you were Haitian iirc.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

All hail Empress Winnie

You’re fukkin missed!

 

[Cereal_Bowl_Assassin]

Disgusting

 

[Unknown Poster]

lebanese , germans and China man inching in though

Indians too.

But China is re-colonizing Africa right now...i mean at a record speed.

Why would I ever have any quarrel with any black man or black woman regardless of nationality or ethnicity when we getting our asses whooped by everybody else?

And the Oyinbo are operating whites only businesses too in Nigeria...there were articles posted here about it.

 

[generic-username]

lebanese , germans and China man inching in though

People overstate the Chinese and Lebanese presence in Nigeria.

As Germans, I don't even think they are in Nigeria like that.

 

[generic-username]

But white people colonized it and fukked it up though regardless.

I'm Nigerian too...why we act like whitey aint fukk up our shyt just as bad?

They fukked up the entire country by creating Nigeria in the first place. However the damage they could have done would have been much much worse had they settled in large numbers like they did in SA.

 

[Akata Man Bromo]

In December 1990, about 40 Afrikaner families, headed by Carel Boshoff, the son-in-law of former South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, bought the dilapidated town for around R1.5 million (US$585,000),[30][a] on behalf of the Orania Bestuursdienste (OBD).[74] The first 13 inhabitants moved in April 1991.[75] During the same month, the people who still lived in Grootgewaagd were evicted,[76] after being provided with newly built homes in nearby towns.[77] The village was renamed Kleingeluk.[78]

The last white-minority government led by F. W. de Klerk opposed the creation of an Afrikaner state, and the existence of Orania, but it took no action, believing it would fail on its own.[79] At that time, the town consisted of 90 houses in Orania and 60 in Kleingeluk, all in a grave state of disrepair.[78] In August 1991 the 2,300-hectare (5,700-acre) farm Vluytjeskraal 272 was added to Orania.[80][81]

The presence of residents with politically extreme views hampered early attempts to gain broader acceptance for the community.[82] Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) members made up a sizable minority of the population.[83] In July 1991, one resident publicly threatened to resort to terrorism unless Orania was granted independence.[84] By 1993, people with similarly militant views had reportedly been removed from the community.[85]

The town council was established in February 1992.[86] A journalist for the Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant, visiting in 1993, noted that houses had been repaired, but the town lacked any meaningful economic activity.[83] There were few jobs available, and no money for further development.[83] The town relied on neighboring farms for food.[87]

Orania elected its own transitional representative council, a temporary form of local government created after the end of apartheid, in 1995.[88] Construction on an irrigation scheme to cover a 400-hectare (990-acre) area began in 1995 and was completed in October 1996.[89]

In a conciliatory gesture, then-President Nelson Mandela visited the town in 1995 to have tea with Betsie Verwoerd, widow of former Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd.[90] Orania grew to 200 permanent inhabitants in 1996.[75] By 1998 R15 million had been invested in the town for expenses including the upgrading of water and electricity supply, roads and businesses.[91] A violent incident occurred just outside Orania in April 2000, when a white man shot and wounded a 17-year-old black girl, hitting her leg.[92][93]

On 5 June 1998, Valli Moosa, then Minister of Constitutional Development in the African National Congress (ANC) government, stated in a parliamentary budget debate that "the ideal of some Afrikaners to develop the North Western Cape as a home for the Afrikaner culture and language within the framework of the Constitution and the Charter of Human Rights is viewed by the government as a legitimate ideal".[94][13]

They bought a whole town for 500k