![]() Residents say that they were, in part, driven to Orania for economic reasons. "We want to establish something new and be proud of who we are and so on.” “They enjoyed it so much here, and I think when you visit for a few days and you try to understand then you see.we don't want to go back to apartheid," she said. Orania boasts having no crime and no need for a police department. South Africa, generally, is among the most violent countries in the world. He said that there were many problems with crime where he used to live. “I think the problem in South Africa is we don't know, we don't understand each other, and the only part we see of each other are the bad parts." “We live in a very divided country,” he said. He insisted that he’s not a racist and said that moving to Orania allowed him to become more open-minded. ![]() Roets, a developer, along with his wife and four sons, moved to Orania seven years ago. “It minimizes everything that we stand for.” ![]() For residents outside of Orania, the idea of self-separation harkens back to that time, lending to the name that Orania is externally widely known as: "Apartheid Town." Apartheid, South Africa’s legal system of segregation that displaced blacks from farms and limited which jobs they could have, ended less than 30 years ago. But to many, that history recalls a dark past. ![]()
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