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.

Nelson Mandela - A victory for love over hatred

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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