http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29475977
Something incredibly trippy to read today. There is a town in South Africa named Orania. It was founded in 1991 by Afrikaners. The town only allows Afrikaners to live there. As in, only white people who speak the language and can prove themselves ethnic Afrikaner can live in this small town.
The town started up in response to the end of the apartheid. Something many of the people who live there find nothing wrong with. Now they claim they leave South Africa for Orania because of reverse racism.
""We can't get jobs. It's like we are being punished for the past," he says. They seem oblivious to the oppression of black South Africans during
apartheid. For them it was a system that gave order. "It [apartheid] didn't affect me. So many people get aggravated now for
things they didn't even witness. It's over, move on," says Yolandie Jonk, 29, a
call centre agent."
We've been talking a lot about South Africa and the race relations there and I just thought this was something else. I really don't know how to react to it, it's just so strange and feels wrong. People are weird.
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