Trump spotlight divides S.Africa's Afrikaners

Trump spotlight divides S.Africa's Afrikaners

Country music and the aroma of pancakes enveloped the "Boeremark", or farmer's market, outside South Africa's capital Pretoria where thousands of Afrikaners browsed on a Saturday morning.

'Orania will not fall': Afrikaner town claps back at Malema

Residents of Orania have clapped back at EFF leader Julius Malema’s plan to abolish their white Afrikaner-only town. This week, the controversial politician argued that the Afrikaner community “undermines national unity and perpetuates Apartheid-era ideologies.” ‘ORANIA WILL NOT FALL’ A day after Julius Malema’s vow to dismantle Orania, town leaders vowed to fight back in a Facebook post. It read: “Orania will not ‘fall’ but continue to build. T…

In the United States, where there are daily manifestations of racial discrimination, they claim, without proof, that such exclusion is committed against the white minority in South Africa, whose government emphatically denied it.

The story of Afrikaner empowerment is more complex than Khwezi Mabasa might think

Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria | PixaBayWritten by: Ayanda Sakhile ZuluKhwezi Mabasa offers a provocative reading of Afrikaner history, but one that reduces a deeply layered story to a single and convenient narrative. His central argument is that Afrikaner empowerment was almost entirely driven by the state through racially exclusive interventions such as job reservation, welfare programmes, and state-owned enterprises. In his framing, this hist…

Trump Spotlight Divides S.Africa's Afrikaners

Country music and the aroma of pancakes enveloped the "Boeremark", or farmer's market, outside South Africa's capital Pretoria where thousands of Afrikaners browsed on a Saturday morning.

EFF calls for review of Orania’s status - The Zambian Observer

EFF calls for review of Orania’s status The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Northern Cape have called for a review of Orania’s status, a predominantly Afrikaans town of around 3,500 residents in the Northern Cape. The party argues that the town undermines national unity and perpetuates apartheid-era ideologies. Following failed discussions with Orania’s leadership and […] The post EFF calls for review of Orania’s status first appeared on The …