The Orania Movement, primarily composed of South Africa’s Afrikaners (Dutch settlers), has turned down US President Donald Trump’s offer of humanitarian aid to re-settle Afrikaners in the United States. Instead, Orania leader Joost Strydom emphasised the group’s commitment to remaining in South Africa to establish a self-governing territory. The offer came after Trump cut US HIV/AIDS aid to South Africa over a new land expropriation law aimed at addressing long-standing racial inequalities.
Orania is a white-only town in the Northern Cape province that tries to uphold Afrikaner culture. The Orania Movement is made up of residents of this town. The movement claims it is a cultural project, not race-based. However, many people say the town and its policy of not allowing non-white residents is nothing but a racist endeavour to maintain vestiges of the apartheid system.
Critics argue the Orania Movement’s pearl-clutching conveniently ignores significant economic advantages enjoyed by Afrikaners in the world’s most unequal country, where white settlers, who make up 8 per cent of the population, own more than 70 per cent of privately owned land.
South Africa inequality
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/10/south-africa-most-unequal-country-in-the-world-report
Land inequality
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-stark-divide-that-south-africa-s-land-act-seeks-to-bridge/ar-AA1yI3QG