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Orania,South Africa's white only town.

In this town everyone is white. Along the banks of the Orange River is a town called Orania — known for stunning sunsets and a wide
variety of vegetation. Currently living in this town is a group of people who don’t fit the typical image of a native African. The reason is
that everyone, from the store workers to government officials, is white.

How did an all-white town in Africa come to be?

Orania is a white Afrikaner-only town in 'Rainbow Nation' South Africa. But then, residents here insist they are not racist.Orania, in
accordance with South Africa's constitution, has no formal law banning black residents, but in practice only Afrikaner residents have
been permitted here so far.

The population of this town is 2,500 Africanos, descendants of Dutch and French, and the population of this town has increased
steadily since it was founded 30 years ago when the apartheid regime fell.

According to the people in this town, they are not racist. That's what they say. But they don't allow any person that is not white to live
in this town. Indian, black, orange, any person of color is not allowed in Orania. They said they just want to live among themselves in
security far away from the rest of the country, South Africa.

30 years ago, When legal segregation ended, many cities adjusted to this new regulation. Yet, Orania citizens decided not to adapt to
this change.

Carel Willem Hendrik Boshoff, the founder of Orania, seemingly continued to follow the ideology of apartheid when he bought 8,000
hectares of land in 1990 to establish a new town with the idea of exclusivity.

Bosoff, the son-in-law of Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, saw Orania as an opportunity to build a new history for his
people, descendants of the Dutch, who lived in South Africa.

Yet, before the town was established, it was inhabited by Black and mixed-race squatters who had set their homes there after a
failed 1960s construction project. Different sources share that this group of settlers was forced out when the construction of Orania
began.

Now the town is exclusively occupied by people of the same ethnic background. Everyone is white, from government officials to
people working in grocery stores and schools. Yet the habitants of Orania don’t see themselves differently since they have unique
traditions, languages, and a separate flag. They consider themselves Afrikaners, who just happen to have a white skin tone.

The small town prides itself on having broken the colonial labour practices, which consisted of using cheap black labour for all the
hard or manual work. Meanwhile, on a daily basis, its inhabitants live in a parallel reality where black South Africans do not exist or at
least are invisible. Under South Africa's constitution, Orania has the right to self-determination and operates autonomously from the
central government.

When asked who can live in Orania, Bushoff says anyone can live there. However, new residents must undergo a screening process
and an interview. In addition, they would have to adapt to the Afrikaner language and culture.

In South Africa, the rate of violence is high. In the past year, murder rates have increased by around 10 percent. Many reports share
that the country is partially at war with itself with its increase in murder and rape. Thus the Afrikaners feel their town is one of the few
safe havens in the country.

Orania is a town that offers a safer and slower pace of life. There are no traffic lights, two schools, and one radio station. It’s almost
like it exists in an alternative reality inside South Africa.

Many residents see Orania as an opportunity for a bright future. It’s a place to raise their children — a picture-perfect town for those
viewing it from the inside. However, the city tells a different story for those on the outside looking in.

Because of the lack of cultural diversity and South Africa’s history of inequality, many non-Afrikaners see Orania as an apartheid town.
While many residents of Orania may view their history as simple transactions of buying and populating land, others may view it as
exclusion.

Despite the criticism, Orania remains a popular destination for tourists and curious visitors.

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲. 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭 𝐠𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝐍𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝.

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