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	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| South Africa's 'white homeland'
		Orania's elders say they are trying to protect a language and a culture which are under threat.
		Orania is built on private land, bought by Mr Boshoff and colleagues at the beginning of the 1990s.
		Orania's museum is a shrine to Afrikaner history - glass cabinets are full of old muskets and rifles, and pride of place is given to fading photos and maps depicting the battles of the Anglo-Boer war.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/2500435.stm (637 words)

	Orania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Orania is a South African town located along the Orange River in the Northern Cape province in the arid Karoo region.
		Orania is unique among South African cities as it is the only all-Afrikaner enclave in South Africa.
		The purpose of Orania, according to its founders, is to create a town where the preservation of Afrikanerdom's cultural heritage is strictly observed and Afrikaner selfwerksaamhied ("self reliance") is an actual practice, not just an idea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orania (949 words)

	Orania: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Orania is an South Africa[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link]n town located along the Orange River Orange River quick summary:
		Orania is unique among South African cities as it is possibly the last all-Afrikaner[Click link for more facts about this topic] enclave in South Africa—it has a stringent policy of not allowing any non-Afrikaner residents or workers.
		Orania also has its own school system which is rather unorthodox by South African standards.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/or/orania.htm (884 words)

	Afrikaner"s complain to BBC about misrepresentation
		The goal of Orania is, in large part, the conservation of the centuries old Afrikaans culture, of which language is a critical element.
		Orania's primary economic activity is agricultural and many have re-settled there to escape danger.
		It is irresponsible for the BBC to report on the town of Orania without including the context of farm murders and the appropriation of their land.
	www.africancrisis.org /NewsView.asp?Rec=6992&EID=0& (742 words)

	Orania: White Life in Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Orania is not an impulse; but even a reply can be a weakness and a strength at the same time.
		Orania became the best-developed village hereabouts once the post office, a guest house, a clinic, a shop, a church building and a school were added.
		Orania is in the Northern Cape province, 164 kilometers from Kimberley and 200 kilometers from Bloemfontein.
	www.nationalvanguard.org /story.php?id=3297 (1962 words)

	American Renaissance
		This is Orania in the Northern Cape and if the name rings a bell, the town has often been in the news for it’s conservative politics.
		As one visitor to Orania said it seems strange that you have to travel to the middle of nowhere to find such a dynamic system of self-guided education.
		Orania is a mere sample of similar racially based undertakings by Whites that will occur more and more frequently over the next decade or so.
	www.amren.com /news/news04/04/29/orania.html (2006 words)

	Die-hard Afrikaners hide in whites-only enclave / 600 flee complexities of new South Africa
		Burger is one of dozens of young Afrikaners who have recently flocked to Orania, driven out of cities like Johannesburg by growing unemployment and a simmering racial resentment that some fear presages a resurgence of violent white separatist activity.
		Orania, which is Afrikaans for orange, a color regarded as a symbol of Afrikaner freedom, is a place where they say they can continue their Dutch-influenced language and culture.
		Orania is the brainchild of Professor Carel Boshoff, the son-in-law and spiritual heir of the late South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, who was the grand architect of the apartheid system in the 1960s.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/11/25/MN213178.DTL&type=printable (860 words)

	Orania postpones election postponement
		This deadline rendered Orania unable to launch an application for a postponement of the election as it could be argued by the respondents that the matter had yet to be finalised.
		Orania's actions followed the failure by the government and the Municipal Demarcation Board to resolve the community's demand for self-determination and its objection to its envisaged merger with Hopetown and Strydenburg into a single municipality after the elections.
		The Afrikaner town, structured as a private settlement in 1991, maintains that its claim to self-determination is underpinned by the Constitution.
	www.iol.co.za /general/avant_newsview.php?click_id=13&art_id=qw975064741712B242&set_id=6 (345 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news New currency as Orania turns 15
		An exhibition of Orania's history would be held at the town's auditorium and the new banknotes would be introduced during a dinner in the town hall.
		Orania's transitional representative council, elected in 1995, was officially abolished by the Northern Cape government just before the local government elections in December 2000.
		Orania retained all its powers and was allowed to exercise its competencies as long as these did not interfere with the work of the new combined council.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/222624.htm (694 words)

	washingtonpost.com: A World Apart
		In the early years, only a trickle of settlers made the trek across the dry grasslands to this all-white enclave, which was organized as a private corporation to exempt it from anti-discrimination laws.
		Orania is situated in the middle of battlefields from the Boer War (1899-1902), and the veld is pockmarked with graves.
		Orania's leaders acknowledge that through the early and mid-1990s the town was a magnet for people who hated fls, hated democracy, hated virtually everything about the new South Africa.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A36597-2004Mar30?language=printer (2991 words)

	Orania :: In a Nutshell
		Orania is alive — alive with enthusiasm and entrepreneurs..
		Orania is in the Northern Cape Province, 164 kilometers from Kimberley and 200 kilometers from Bloemfontein.
		The village is situated on the southern bank of the Orange River and is surrounded by a wide stretch of Karoo veld.
	www.orania.co.za /nutshell.asp (505 words)

	Orania pleased at land claim: South Africa: News: News24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Bloemfontein - The Orania Movement said on Tuesday it was satisfied with the settlement of a land claim that involved part of the separatist Afrikaner enclave in the Northern Cape.
		Orania was bought on tender from the department in 1990 and part of the agreement between the founders of Orania and the department was that all the then-inhabitants of the Orania town complex should move out.
		Lombard said Orania residents were pleased by the news that the claim finally had been settled.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,9294,2-7-1442_2040519,00.html (320 words)

	Orania cashes in on the 'ora' : South Africa: News: News24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Johannesburg - A handful of staunch Afrikaners tucked away in a whites-only Orania were to launch their own currency on Thursday as part of a campaign for an independent homeland.
		About 500 Afrikaners are hoping to create an independent homeland in Orania, which was bought by a private company in 1990, months after apartheid laws were scrapped and liberation icon Nelson Mandela released from prison.
		The launch of Orania's new currency came after a vote among residents on five suggested names for the money: leaves, talents, nuts, orion and ora.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1519577,00.html (355 words)

	Mail & Guardian Online:
		Orania’s population of 600 does not suggest South Africa’s 2,5million Afrikaners are lining up to demand their own state.
		At least Orania cannot be accused of such hypocrisy, it is “Boer or bust”, with no fl labour allowed.
		Just how far Orania is from its dream of a far-flung, populous Afrikaner state is highlighted by the modesty of its current political programme -- and the fact that it has had to petition the ANC government to achieve it.
	mg.co.za /articlePage.aspx?articleid=255349&area=/insight/... (976 words)

	White tribesmen of Africa won't give up their dreaming - World - www.smh.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Boshoff, 76, argues that Orania's existence is not a testament to racism.
		Orania's 3500 hectares are hard work to farm, work made harder by a refusal to hire cheap labour, common elsewhere in South Africa.
		Orania launched the currency two days after the swearing-in of Thabo Mbeki as President, but the timing was a coincidence, Mr Boshoff insists.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/05/31/1085855500221.html (613 words)

	Sunday Times - South Africa's best selling newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Orania is unveiling a statue to the koeksister, that syrupy delicacy so loved by Afrikaners.
		The koeksister statue is the brainchild of Orania's Kaalvoet women's organisation, named after the Voortrekker Susanna Smit who said she would rather walk barefoot over the Drakensberg than live under British rule.
		Driving round Orania with its brightly coloured prefab houses, we keep coming back to the statue which, wrapped in a bright orange oilskin, seems a rather malevolent presence.
	www.suntimes.co.za /2003/10/05/lifestyle/life03.asp (1062 words)

	Northern Cape - As real as the people who choose to explore it
		Orania, originally built for construction workers in 1970 on the impressive Orange River Project, stood empty for years until a group of Afrikaners purchased the town with some surrounding land as a pilot project and starting point for Afrikaner settlement and the establishment of an Afrikaner volkstaat.
		Orania offers an example of the ‘traditional’ Afrikaner way of life and also demonstrates the ingenuity of a marginalized community with advanced irrigation techniques, implemented in close cooperation with pioneers in Israel, the only fully organic vineyards in Southern Africa and a sophisticated dairy farm and the cultivation and export of Pecan nuts.
		Orania has a characteristic architecture, with, among others, several buildings built with straw.
	www.northerncape.org.za /getting_around/towns/Orania (292 words)

	S. Africa's island of whites \| csmonitor.com
		Founded a decade ago, Orania is an Afrikaner "private town" with a throw-back ideology and a stringent admittance policy to match.
		While citizens in Orania have no connection to nor condone the bombings, they are trying to capitalize on the sentiments behind them.
		The dream of Orania, fashioned with Verwoerd's theories in mind, was to create a politically and economically independent homeland for the Afrikaner peoples, where their unique Afrikaans language and traditions remained pure, and "outsiders" were kept at bay.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/1204/p01s04-woaf.html (1365 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news Orania prepares for its own election
		The Northern Cape Afrikaner settlement of Orania is going ahead with plans to hold its own elections on 5 December.
		Orania spokesperson Carel Boshoff says the private election will go ahead, separately from the countrywide municipal poll, even if Orania loses a court case seeking a postponement of "official" elections in the area.
		The community is seeking a postponement of elections in their area until their claim to self-determination has been finalised.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/157460.htm (302 words)

	SABCnews.com - south_africa/general
		The ultra-conservative Afrikaaner community of Orania is gearing up to hold its private election on Wednesday for a seven member representative council.
		Just before the previous local government election, Orania was amalgamated into a single municipality with the neighbouring towns of Hopetown and Strydenburg, but this was objected to by the community.
		The court agreed that the Orania council should remain while a government agreement is being sought on self-determination.
	www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/general/0,2172,122509,00.html (217 words)

	Wofford College Presidential Scholar - Journals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		But for its inhabitants and supporters, Orania is a burgeoning Afrikaner homeland—a community that is struggling to preserve an ethnic identity that is, in their eyes, seriously threatened.
		But the decision to locate Orania here was not without purpose for this was formerly the site of an irrigation canal project.
		When fl South Africans were given the right to vote in the 1990’s and the government changed hands, a group of Afrikaner investors formed a corporation and purchased the town.
	www.wofford.edu /presidentialScholar/journal013105.asp (1005 words)

	Mzansi Afrika: Dream on Orania
		Those insane and racist Afrikaners in Orania have not yet given up on their dream of creating an independent, self-sufficient "homeland" within the borders of South Africa.
		They are currently holding a conference to look at how section 235 of the Constitution can be used as the basis to push forward their claims for independence.
		I think they're just a bunch of hard nosed racists who are simply unable to accept that they have to live under a fl government and it kills them to have to live under a legal and constitutional system that was largely created by fl people.
	mzansiafrika.typepad.com /mzansi_afrika/2005/10/dream_on_orania.html (637 words)

	Star: Icasa puts 'racist' Orania radio station out of action
		The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) said yesterday that Radio Club 100, which broadcasts exclusively for Orania, was shut down after the regulator found it was not licensed to operate.
		The regulator said the decision to confiscate the station's equipment and press legal action was because it had been broadcasting racist and right-wing views that could be offensive.
		Orania's management confirmed that Icasa had raided Radio Club 100 late on Monday but said the station had repeatedly applied for a licence and was merely carrying out tests, not officially broadcasting.
	www.thestar.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=129&fArticleId=2986760 (306 words)

	BAFL
		The 600-strong population of the district of Orania, in the
		Orania has its own currency, the Ora, and there are brave plans for more of such towns.
		Orania is viewed by the South African government as a crazy attempt by die-hard racists to keep apartheid alive, but in reality it is a
	www.freewebs.com /britaf/orania.htm (121 words)

	IOL: Change your rands before trekking to Orania
		The white homeland of Orania on the banks of the Orange River will be launching its own currency in the enclave's community centre on Thursday, to a cautious reception by the Reserve Bank.
		According to Lombard the idea for the currency was first mooted by Professor Johan van Zyl during a conference by the Orania Movement in 2002.
		Van Zyl apparently emphasised that a community which wanted to empower itself needed to do so with as many instruments as possible to further enhance its self determination, and having its own currency unit was good example of this.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?click_id=79&art_id=qw1083165487728B265&set_id=1 (476 words)

	Orania travel guide
		Orania is commonly known as "the only place on Earth that is officially Afrikaners only", and thus an interesting place to visit.
		Non-Afrikaner white races are as unwelcome in Orania as the fl tribes of South Africa, according to the town's citizens.
		You may expect the utmost hospitality from these pioneers, be treated to tradional sweets such as "koeksisters" and enjoy the peace and quiet of the expansive Karoo.
	www.world66.com /africa/southafrica/orania (267 words)

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