ORANIA UPDATE

Oranians rockin' their traditional Afrikaner garb.

by Sebastiaan Biehl

(Sebastiaan Biehl is a German-born man who moved to South Africa and settled in the Afriakner mini-ethnostate of Orania in 2004. Read more about his story here.)

Living in Orania, the Afrikaner ethnic hometown

After 12 years in Orania, life seems quite normal and natural and indeed it should be. I guess it is not so different from life in a rural American town. On a typical day, we go to work (most of us work in the city limits of Orania), which takes us about 5 to 10 minutes, by car, on foot, by bicycle or with the local bus. Everybody speaks Afrikaans everywhere. After work, we do our shopping in small shops all over town, where everybody greets everybody and often chats a few words; we visit our neighbours or friends after work, go to the cinema or the restaurant, have a barbecue on Saturday, go to church on Sundays. Children play outside after school, up to dawn, go to the swimming-pool, ride their bicycles, play sport and games.

ORANIA: OASIS OF SANITY IN A COUNTRY OF CHAOS

The official flag of the town of Orania.

by Sebastiaan Biehl

(Mr. Biehl is a man of German origin, who settled in South Africa and took up residence in Orania. You can read more about his interesting story here)

The government of South Africa, which is dominated by the socialist and black-nationalistic African National Congress (ANC), is busy with the second phase of their so-called "transformation" of our country. The second phase of their planned "transformation" is much more profound and destructive than the first phase. The first, transitional phase – which involved dismantling Apartheid-- still left some space for Afrikaners, but the next phase, the so-called "National Democratic Revolution", aims to wipe out any traces of white, especially Afrikaner history.

PODCAST 17: SOUTH AFRICA: HOPE IN DIVERSITY

Nearly a year after Mandela's death, Andy and Colin talk to Afrikaner writer and activist Attie Schutte about the difficult situation of Whites in the supposed "multi-cultural paradise" of South Africa. Among the topics discussed are endemic corruption in the ANC, the rise of Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters, and efforts by Afrikaners to create true Apartheid (and diversity!) through all-White, Afrikaner-speaking communities like Orania and Kleinfontein. 

SEBASTIAAN OF ORANIA

Note: The following excerpt is taken from my longer piece, entitled The Niggers of the Earth, which chronicles my recent travels among the embattled Afrikaners in post-Apartheid, ANC-ruled South Africa. The Niggers of the Earth will appear in the first issue of Radix, the new print journal funded by the National Policy Institute.

by Andy Nowicki

This passage concerns my visit to the town of Orania, a specifically Afrikaner enclave and mini-ethnostate in the Northern Cape that has garnered worldwide attention. While there, I speak with one of the community’s many interesting inhabitants, a German convert to Boer-dom named Sebastiaan Biehl.