In the desert in Northern Cape lies Orania. An Afrikaner-only town, it’s legal, constitutional – and growing. So what lies ahead for this parochial enclave?

Town chiefs claim Orania is the future for A fri-kaner whites in South Africa. The 800 residents live, work and play around the settlement's 8,000 hectares of lush green fields that are supplied ...

The Northern Cape Afrikaner enclave of Orania is a topic much beloved by documentary-makers and journalists. This is for one good reason: however much you might deplore the principle of cultural ...

In 1976, Soweto's Black student protest against Afrikaans in schools met with police gunfire, escalating into a movement that, amid economic woes, spotlighted South Africa's apartheid globally.

ORANIA, South Africa (Reuters) - While the death of anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela triggered an outpouring of shared sorrow across South Africa's sometimes tense racial divide, eyes stayed ...

“I am crazy about Afrikaans, but like black and coloured Afrikaans- speakers I will never be able to become an inhabitant of Orania,” he said. “The people there were very friendly, but I ...

After seeing a gripping documentary about Orania, the whites-only Afrikaner volkstaat, Hannelie Booyens checks out the Northern Cape town for herself. We blinked and almost drove past the town – it’s ...

Orania is an answer to that fear, born in the dying years of apartheid. The main options then were simple: stay and hope for the best or emigrate.

Orania is not prime real estate by any stretch of the imagination. The settlement west of the Orange River in Northern Cape, South Africa lies on arid and weather-beaten land; baked by the harsh ...

In Orania a whites-only town of 1,000 established in 1991, apartheid lives on. Racial interaction is not welcome in the Afrikaner-only town, where only Afrikaans is spoken.

Because they choose not to rely on outside labor, Orania invests heavily in the education of Afrikaner youth. Oranian children are taught math, history, and science in Afrikaans, the Afrikaners ...