Nelson Mandela - A victory for love over hatred

ORANIA, is a small, time-warp village in South Africa’s Northern Cape province; a small speck on the map in the scrubland edging the Karoo.

It was founded in 1991 by descendants of Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid. It is, or at least was, run as a private town accepting whites only.

It represented a kind of living museum underpinned by racism and hatred posing as a cultural determination to preserve the Afrikaner traditions of self reliance that made the old South Africa what it was.

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