Introduction
In 1991, a group of 13 individuals bought a small piece of land in the middle of the desolate and dry desert of South Africa. This group had dreams and hopes of creating a prospering town for its people. However since its establishment, the town has been in an endless cycle of controversy with journoids all across the globe and the South African goverment sneeding that the town is an abomination that shouldn't exist. That town is Oriana.
Knowledge is Power
We must educate and familiarize ourselves with these terms:
Afrikaan - Colonizing Mayos who originated from germany, france, or the Netherlands
Boer - Means farmer but is used interchangeably with Afrikaan since most of them were farmers
Volkstaat - A proposed view to establish an all-white Afrikaner homeland within the borders of South Africa, most commonly proposed as a fully independent Boer/Afrikaner nation. The concept excludes Afrikaans-speaking coloureds and South Africans of English ancestry, yet is sometimes misunderstood to include them.
The Birth of a Nation Town
Shortly after the end of Apartheid in South Africa in the early 90's, The goverment of South Africa attempted to move forward in bringing all the diverse amd vibrant communities together in pursuit of a functional multicultural society.
Afrikaans realizing that they'll lose their majority rule and would have a harder time passing legislation, decided the best way to show umbrage with the new rules was to seperate and create an ethnically monogamous country of their own kind within South Africa. Unfournately for those Afrikaans they had virtually no chance in their conquest for land against the SA military and general population.
An example image of the Volkstaat the Afrikaan dreamed of creating:
But those subversive Afrikaans noticed a loop hole in the document (and later the constitution) "Accord on Afrikaner self-determination" that they could exploit to their advantage. Specifically the following amendment dealing with minority groups:
The Constitution may give expression to any particular form of self-determination provided there is substantial proven support within the community concerned for such a form of self-determination.
There's an excessive amount of legal jargon that we're gonna skip over because its boring . The key take away is that this allowed for Orania to legally create its own pseudo-Apartheid community. That's exactly what the Mayos Afrikaans of Orania did.
Afrikaan Utopia
The original purpose of Orania was to form a self reliant society that was built from only the labor of purebred Afrikaans living in their town. Well technically, the original purpose of Orania was to expand in population and create a majority of Afrikaans in the northwestern cape within 15 years after the establishment of Orania. But, this plan was dropped due to Orania population not being able to breed enough and never reaching a population count of more than 3,000 individuals. It never even began for infertile mayos
However, that isn't to say that the community was a total failure. In 1991, the town was formed by 13 individuals and in [current year] has reached a decent population size of 2,377. The town has made significant progress in growing its economy, especially due to the fact the town is located in the middle of nowhere in a desert.
Their main agriculture export is also pecans
Oriana has also created its own currency (but no one outside of the town recognizes it):
Alongside their own currency, they also have their own president and flag:
Flag is a bit weird looking, but what do you expect from mayos
Additionally, every house in Orania is built with solar power. This is one of their steps to becoming self-reliant and eco friendly:
So instead of being regular facist chuds they're eco-facist chuds
Orania is expectionally selective in choosing which residents can move and live there. Generally several requirements have to be met to be granted permission to move there. These include:
Passing several criminal background checks
Having Afrikaan ancestry
Passing an Afrikaan culture test
Interviews with the Orania council members
The requirements ensures that the majority of the town is full of mayos. The diabolical plan was beyond successful. As of 2021 the current makeup of Orania is 97% Afrikaans (Yikes ). Weirdly enough this has led to Orania having such a low crime rate that the town doesn't even have a police station. .
The town itself is very small with the total land of it being only 3.5 square miles. Orania currently has plans to reach a population of 10,000 and undergo urbanization in an effort to spread the cultural ideals of the Afrikaan "people".
Born from Sneed
Since it's inception, Orania has been constantly scrutinized and sneeded at for having too much mayonnaise in its town. I'm not even exaggerating either. Every year mutiple sneed articles are written about this literally who town across the world from j*urnoids that dont even live there.
Here's a new york times article from 1994 talking about it. The article also contains this hilarious passage:
Mr. Vaughn, 33, said he moved here [Orania] from Los Angeles after being arrested for child abuse in the beating of his 5-year-old son. "Ach, you can't even give your child a hiding there," he said of the land he left behind. He came to Orania two years ago because he admired the "Calvinist values" and racial outlook, and was warmly welcomed with his wife, Brenda, and five children. A few neighbors objected when they learned Brenda Vaughn is three-sixteenths Cherokee, but, said Mr. Vaughn, "I threatened to beat a few people up and it died down."
History truly is beautiful
Here are some relevant modern takes sneeding about Orania:
As expected, sneed about this town has been growing every year as the world is forced learning to embrace diversity (Our greatest strength!).
The South African goverment has sneeded at Orania every year and wants the town to be shutdown permanently and to accept South Africa's rainbow nationalism policy. But the town people just ignore the SA government since they have never taken action once against the town since its creation 21 years ago
Panyaza Lesufi is a parliment member that despises Orania so much that he's called for the abolition of the city full of "mindless racists". Weirdly enough, the majority of the Orania population don't even consider themselves white but rather Afrikaan.
Let's head to the some current year drama of this irrelevant town
Twitter Drama
Recently there was post on this site that revolved around a fragile mayo strangling a black boy for swimming in a mayos only pool. This conflict sparked discourse about racism within South Africa, and of course people began discussing Orania:
Based. Everyone should stay in whatever country their born and never be allowed to move or immigrate
This guy is unironically right. For all the news coverage and sneed that Orania gets for being on stolen land, they occupy only 3.5 square miles. But they live rent free in the minds of the South African population.
Every race should be able to practice their culture except the ones I dont like!
"If they won't accept willingly, than we'll make them accept us with force"
Lmao at European rejects
Volkstaat is an account of an Orania citizen. They post constant updates about the town and the different projects the townspeople are working on. Great place to find drama since people are always sneeding in the comments
That's our land you must return it or pay rent for that piece of land
The Afrikaners actually did purchase the land from the South African goverment before they established their chud-town. It also led to the displacement of about 500 African individuals who lived there. However, I feel that the goverment is more to blame for this but who knows?
What did he mean by this?
Develop my guy... tell us when you are done then we invade our land
Oh that's what he meant
Reddit Drama
Some dramatic reddit threads on Orania:
Yeah and given how they are treated by their peers, I canβt really blame them.
Wonβt someone please think it the racists!!!β How is this back bush shit upmarseyd??
Most of these people weren't even born when it was abolished tough?
your point is? You think there isnt a knock on effect of past events in modern society?
If we want to move forward as a society we must hold grudge and hate from years ago and never let people forget what their ancestors did (This but unironically)
Why? Shouldnβt people be allowed to decide who can be in their community?
Final Thoughts
So far the fate of Orania and its Afrikaan individuals reamins unknown. The hate for the town grows every year from South African citizens and the government but it looks like it's going to go nowhere in the next couple of years based on past trends.
If you do have time, you should definitely check out the history page on wikipedia or other sites. There's a lot I couldn't include that was somewhat interesting given the long history of the town.
Either way I hope you enjoyed this lengthy read, no better way to end the year with one final effortpost for 2022. Have a wonderful new years friends!
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We laugh at this because the blacks are sneeding at a very successful example of apartheid, but how would we feel if black people were racist enough to try to create "black-only" spaces and eject mayos from those areas? It wouldn't be so funny then, would it?
Oh wait, they already do. I guess if it's OK for black people to practice apartheid, it must be OK for white people to do it also!
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There was also a case of Bipocs buying land with the intention of making a safe city for BIPOCs. It happened two years ago but I wonder how far they've gotten
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It's very interesting how whites always seem to be far more tolerant of black people voluntarily segregating themselves than black people are of whites voluntarily segregating themselves. I better not think about that too much, or I might nootice something!
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Same for Israel.
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