[ICYMI] eNCAElectionBus: The 'immoral people' of Orania
Orania, Northern Cape
Tuesday, 16 April - The eNCA team standing outside Orania, as part of the Election Bus drive around the country ahead of the 2019 Elections. As the evening progresses conversations are flowing and there’s laughter all around the table. During the dinner table discussions it’s revealed casually that the Cosatu Northern Cape leadership have been to Orania to “learn” from this community’s leadership how to “run systems properly”.
Driving around the area, past the shopping center, the Verwoerd Museum and Koeksister Monument, we notice a few white workers at a construction site, building a house in the unforgiving sun of the Northern Cape. This is yet another confirmation of Afrikaner labourers doing work “for and by ourselves” as the saying goes around here.
I ask Pieter Krige, if an Orania community member were to marry a black person, would they be allowed to build their home inside Orania? Pieter replies: “The official statement would be yes.The eNCA election bus spent the night in Orania in the Northern Cape.This morning, anchor Xoli Mngambi speaks to Orania's political leadership, to tell us about the idea of going at it alone and whether it’s worked.
I want to know what attracted them to this Afrikaner enclave. In both of their responses they use prhases like: “there are so many opportunities here” and also make mention of the “10% [economic] growth rate for the past 4 years”. But they completely dismiss the idea of “reverse-racism” against white people in broader South Africa, saying it’s not what attracted them to Orania. What they are highlighting is the good quality of life and the happiness they feel in their community.
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