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[17 Pics] Orania - Afrikaner Homeland: While Blacks starve, Whites turn the Desert into an Oasis Date Posted: Tuesday 18-Nov-2008 In Africa, Black people are starving. They are starving even in countries like Zimbabwe which was once the breadbasket of southern Africa. They fail at farming, even when they take over formerly White-owned farms, with Government aid, which are worth tens of millions of Rands. These farms collapse. NB: In Zimbabwe, where the Blacks now have all the land, and still their harvests become smaller and smaller with each passing year, we now see a handful of Whites still farming - in their back yards! Be amazed and check this out: [8 Pics] Zimbabwe: Preparing for Total Economic Collapse: Farming on 4 foot x 4 foot Take a look at these stories below which illustrate what I'm saying about the failure of black farming in Zimbabwe and South Africa:- [Pic] Colonial Africa: Rhodesia - Today the blacks starve to death, but let me show you a shocking Colonial photo... [4 Pics] My Photos from our Farm in Rhodesia, before it became Zimbabwe... [6 Photos] S.Africa: A ruined farm worth R100 million S.Africa: Govt takes back 2 damaged farms worth R100 million There is a lie. It is a HUGE LIE. This lie is written in books and repeated on the airwaves and hundreds of millions of people across the world believe in this lie. The lie is this: That White people in Africa took the best land for themselves and gave the worst land to the blacks. This lie is demonstrably false. For example, building a farm from scratch and carving it out of the wild bush, is far more difficult than taking over a working farm and running it. All the profitable farms that blacks took or stole from whites were going concerns which were created from nothing. So ask yourself: Who had the hardest work, the whites or the blacks? As you will see in the above photos, even when the blacks, with Govt and specialist aid and finance took over farms, the farms collapsed. So here is the other point: Even when the blacks do get the white farms (which supposedly are based on the "best land" - which is a lie), those farms still fail!  The lie about the "best land" also hides other facts. Whites looked after their land and built the land up and increased its fertility, whereas the blacks ruined theirs through bad farming methods.  There is much more I can say about this lie, and I will make a point of revisiting this point of the Blacks getting the worst land and the Whites getting the best land because in South Africa itself, there is no bigger lie than this. With even the barest bit of investigation, anyone, even outside Africa, will be able to prove to themselves, via independent sources, that this is a complete lie of the highest order. All it requires is a little bit of knowledge about South Africa's geography and history, and you will see that this is the biggest, boldest and most blatant lie ever told about South Africa. And yet, it is probably the easiest one to refute. I will revisit that topic with a special series of photos I took. Let us now look at things from another angle. Let us look at Whites who went to arid and semi-arid areas and farmed in a place where Blacks would never even think of farming, and then made a success out of it. These areas are so arid that hardly any blacks even live there.  I'm going to take you to a small place that very few people outside South Africa even know the existence of, and even in South Africa, this place is deliberately ignored and all its successes are deliberately kept out of the Mass Media. Why? Because in a country where agriculture is failing and collapsing as the Govt seizes white farms, there is a small area, where Whites operate all by themselves, and are making a great success of things. That place is the small town of Orania. Orania was started by a few hundred Afrikaners as a type of "Afrikaner Homeland". The plan was to have a place where only Whites live, and where Whites do all the work by themselves. They have no Black labour at all. These Whites have a small town and they farm. In 2006 they even opened their own bank and issued their own currency! See: [2 Photos] Afrikaner Currency for Zimbabwe's failed Dollar? It is not politically correct to point out that a handful of Whites, operating by themselves, with no foreign aid; with no Govt funding and with no other external assistance; are actually making a success on a continent where Blacks, despite hundreds of billions in Aid, are failing in more fertile farmland with better rain! It is not the sort of thing that the Mass Media and the Governments want to spread around too much. So that is why you never hear about Orania, and why Orania, even in South Africa, is hardly ever mentioned. A friend of mine told me that a few years ago he went to Orania, and he was absolutely amazed at what those few Afrikaners had achieved there. Only about 700 people were living there at the time. I don't know how many live there now. He was the first to tell me that Orania is actually quite a lovely success. His visit impressed him immensely. Recently, another regular visitor to my website was diagnosed with very serious cancer. And in my discussions with another friend who knew him, I discovered that the two of them had visited Orania about a year ago. I asked for photos, and this is what I was sent.  Now most of South Africa, unlike Zimbabwe is actually semi-arid. In Zimbabwe you have lots of rain and warm weather. And most of Africa to the north is even more fertile than Zimbabwe. Africa is actually a Garden of Eden and a farmer's paradise. In Colonial times Africa exported incredible varieties of foods and fruit. But in recent decades Africa is synonymous with starvation. South Africa, is actually once of the worst places in Africa to farm. The temperatures are quite extreme, and the place is mostly semi-arid. South Africa is short of water at the best of times.  These Afrikaners who started Orania actually moved to an even more arid place and set themselves up by a river. And I want to show you what they did by themselves, unlike the Blacks who get IMF and World Bank funding and free money from Europe and America. These Whites financed themselves, and they did all this work by the sweat of their brow with no assistance whatsoever.  This photo was taken inside Orania.    Take a close look at these photos below. In the distance you'll see the arid brown terrain around Orania. But look at these irrigated fields and this little oasis in a semi-arid land.        The photo below is of the Boer-Irish monument that used to be situated on the gomo (koppie - hill) in Brixton, Johannesburg next to the Brixton tower. The blacks were going to destroy it, so the Whites moved to Orania.    Here is a photo of a typical house in Orania, built in the Cape Dutch style. Note the solar powered geyser to the right of the house.   Here is a close up of it.   NB: Note that Orania can handle tourists. Below is one of the log holiday homes you can rent.     Orania has a caravan park, and the following three photos were taken in the caravan park.    You can do some fishing at the caravan park.    Orania also has an olympic sized swimming pool and a landing strip for aircraft. Below is a photo of Orania from the distance. Again, in the foreground, note how dry, arid and rocky it really is. From a distance Orania looks like an oasis.   Here is a pump in the river, from which they irrigate.   This is their pump platform.    Here you can see some of their fields in the sunset.   Sunset in Orania...   This photo was taken in the early evening with the moon high in the sky. Again, you can see how arid the region is.   They do have their own website, and they can be contacted.  Check out their site: http://www.orania.co.za or contact: Frans de Klerk His telephone number is: +27 53 207-0062 His telephone number is: (053) 207-0062 Their postal address:-  Posbus 27 Orania 8752 South Africa. Posted By: Jan AfricanCrisis Webmaster Author of: Government by Deception       Readers' Comments Date Posted: Wednesday 19-Nov-2008 While the so-called new South Africa crumbles into a replica of Zimbabwe, a small island of old South Africa stands out like a beacon of light. This is the enterprising attitude and skill that built SA. It looks fantastic and I admire those who have made it possible for themselves. But I can see storm clouds on the horizon. How long will it be before the "I wantee," "Give me" brigade of useless blacks steal it all and then turn it back into desert scrub land. These usless morons think that the whites waved a magic wand and Oriana suddenly appeared and cost nothing to build because all the materials were stolen from black owned SA, so theoretically, it all belongs to the blacks anyway - in their pathetic mindset. They will take it and destroy it. That is the blacks excel themselves - destroying all that is good. Clive Maulden Date Posted: Tuesday 18-Nov-2008 When I was a young boy in Rhodesia, my family lived in Salisbury (Harare). My parents bought a small block of land in the mountains, and carved a farm out of the virgin bush. But that's not the point of this story. For many years we commuted between the city and the farm every few weeks, about 180 miles. Along the way, the road passed along the edge of a Tribal Trust Land for about 30 miles, so that there was African controlled land on one side of the road, and on the other, 20 feet away, was European controlled land. The European side was always beautiful, thick bush interspersed with fertile fields of maize and tobacco, and fat cattle grazing. The African side, 20 feet away, was desert, where not even bush grass would grow, even when it rained. All you could see were a few African huts, and a few, thin, goats and donkeys scratching for something to eat. When Mugabe took over Rhodesia in 1980, all the stock fencing along the European side of the road disappeared within days. Within 6 months, really, the desert had escaped and was now on both sides of the road, where it still is to this day. Bernie Perth Date Posted: Tuesday 18-Nov-2008 Orania has seemed like a great place from the time I first learned of its existance. Mick USA Date Posted: Tuesday 18-Nov-2008 I was hoping that this would remain the best-kept secret in South Africa - to keep Orania safe. Sometimes it's better not to advertise one's successes... there's some nice YouTube video on Orania, too explaining their policy of self-help - and their financial policy which includes having their OWN MONETARY UNITS (the Ora) and their own bank. I visited Orania shortly after it was purchased and it was a desolate place full of grubby temporary huts. But inside those huts were some of the nicest coal-stoves I'd ever seen. And many are still there today, being put to good use. I remember the first families who moved in there and had to learn how to do all their own hand-labour. A lot of them were real old-fashioned Boeretannies from Pretoria and the hardest thing they all had to get used to, is not to have any ousies, they all told me. But they stuck it out. What you see in Orania today is all due to the hard work put in by everybody in the place. Their educational system is also unique: they were the first in Africa to start using computerised education via the internet, and now they have built this into an industry called KenWeb. O the place has its opponents. Usually the opposition comes from omies and tannies who refuse to do their own housework and demand that their 'ousie' must be housed in the backyard. Which requests are always very firmly, courteously refused - because everybody who goes and lives there has to sign an undertaking to do all their own work, or hire local contractors to do the work for them such as gardening and building etc. And there are plenty of those entrepreneurs in Orania - where nothing is free, everybody has to work really hard.  Does this remind you of anything? Atlas Shrugged perhaps? Adriana Stuijt Dokkum The Netherlands Date Posted: Tuesday 18-Nov-2008 Not to mention what Jewish settlers were able to do in Palestine in the early 1900s and the scientific and agricultural developments and progress in the Negev desert after the creation of the state of israel in 1948. Peter Johannesburg South Africa