White South Africans Create Their Own Town By The Orange River, No Blacks Allowed

Orania, a privately-owned town in South Africa, has been the subject of controversy due to its homogenous population of white Afrikaners. The town, which was established by descendants of 17th-century Dutch colonizers, holds 19,000 acres of land on the banks of the Orange River and operates autonomously from the central government under South Africa's post-apartheid constitution.

While Orania's residents adamantly deny allegations of racism, the lack of diversity in the town raises concerns about the exclusion of other ethnic groups in a country that has a history of racial segregation. In a statement, pioneer resident Wynand Boshoff argued that the absence of Black workers in Orania is not indicative of racism, stating that "we do our own work, from gardening to cleaning our houses, our own toilets to construction, everything."

Orania claims to have shunned the system of "cheap black labor" that is prevalent in South Africa's rich suburbs, where manual work is almost exclusively delegated to Black people. The town has cut ties with colonial and apartheid-era work practices and asserts that its residents do all the work themselves.