"'Could a person of color, who speaks Afrikaans, embraces the Afrikaner culture and is married to an Afrikaner, become a resident?'" Wouldn't be surprised if it's targeted in the land expropriation though. ",Norman's interviewees frequently cite violent crime as a concern. ".Deconstructing the effects of policy change in the post-apartheid years, Norman crosses the country speaking to Afrikaners choosing either to redefine or consolidate their identity. ".Pragmatic or paranoid, private security forces in gated urban communities are a common sight in South Africa. The great fear -- and one this group claims plenty of evidence for -- is erasure. "If someone who is obviously not a typical Afrikaner -- a 'colored' for example -- would wish to live in Orania, he/she would be noticed and would be reacted upon accordingly, in other words be asked if and how he/she would assimilate with the community," he writes, adding that such questions "would probably offend" and "not make for easy relationships. "'It is not theoretically impossible, but it would be very difficult,'" he replies.CNN asked Boshoff to elaborate via email.Carel Boshoff IV, president of the Orania Movement.

Put to work largely farming and building, there's zero tolerance of substance abuse for these men who had been "total 'come-aparts'.". ".For others however, their Afrikaner identity is sacrosanct. Might end up as a target for expropriation?If they not hurting anyone, just let them be. The,In its embattled state, Afrikaner history becomes hagiography. Established in 2006, while they "believe the revolution will start with black-on-black violence, they fear that aggression will quickly focus on white people," writes the author. ".The threat is often existential and "othering" of the black population is still prevalent, a point made clear by the Suidlanders Norman meets, a group of Afrikaner "preppers" not affiliated with Orania, planning for the event of a revolution. As such, the community is able to maintain more control over who is permitted into the collective.Nelson Mandela visited in 1995, Norman writing that Orania's residents "greeted him politely and said they'd love to see him as president... of a neighboring country." ".Kobus Gouws and Caspar Muller, step-brothers interviewed by Norman and residents of Sunshine Corner, a township outside of Pretoria.Riaan, one of the residents of Kleingeluk, small apartments for single male workers in Orania.Stubble burning on one of Orania's farms, circa 2003.Two young men having a drink in Orania, circa 2013.A young boy rides a toy tractor next to a mural of Orania's emblem.In the beginning [...] we were regarded as mad," Boshoff tells Norman. Instead, the community has gained a notoriety beyond its modest means as a parochial enclave within the Rainbow Nation, where the dream of an Afrikaner state is alive and well.Orania, you might have guessed, is Afrikaner-only. Orania is so safe that no police station is needed – an important attraction in a country with a notoriously high crime rate. The efforts of the pioneering.

For them it was a system that gave order.“It [apartheid] didn’t affect me. ",The disavowal for some is extreme. Norman asks Boshoff in one of their interviews. You don’t have that where you live,” he tells me.He blames FW de Klerk, the last Afrikaner to rule South Africa, for the plight of his people.“He gave away the country for nothing. "They may realize that things are just as bad for the majority of the black population, but they're used to being in a place where that couldn't happen to a white person. Wouldn't be surprised if it's targeted in the land expropriation though.If the shit kicks off its the first place they'll target with violence to make an example.What aggravates that potential situation is that I'm sure the people of Orania are the type of people who will be armed and will rather go out in a bloody last stand than run.

The son-in-law of H.F. Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, he and a number of families purchased an abandoned workers' village with lofty ambitions that one day hundreds of thousands of Afrikaners might call it home.When Boshoff III died in 2011, his son Carel Jr. assumed presidency of the Orania Movement, the political arm of the community. You can walk in the street at 3am without any fear. It's a romanticized image for a romanticized notion: a place where Afrikaners can be Afrikaners. Street signs, town names, rivers, mountains, dams, even airports, have lost their Afrikaans monikers in recent years. Tough, resourceful and making do; descendants of Dutch settlers and proud of it.A remote farming town of approximately 1,300, Orania by this description is unremarkable. "I think the more divided a society is, the more support you're going to get for these types of initiatives.

"'Could a person of color, who speaks Afrikaans, embraces the Afrikaner culture and is married to an Afrikaner, become a resident?'" Wouldn't be surprised if it's targeted in the land expropriation though. ",Norman's interviewees frequently cite violent crime as a concern. ".Deconstructing the effects of policy change in the post-apartheid years, Norman crosses the country speaking to Afrikaners choosing either to redefine or consolidate their identity. ".Pragmatic or paranoid, private security forces in gated urban communities are a common sight in South Africa. The great fear -- and one this group claims plenty of evidence for -- is erasure. "If someone who is obviously not a typical Afrikaner -- a 'colored' for example -- would wish to live in Orania, he/she would be noticed and would be reacted upon accordingly, in other words be asked if and how he/she would assimilate with the community," he writes, adding that such questions "would probably offend" and "not make for easy relationships. "'It is not theoretically impossible, but it would be very difficult,'" he replies.CNN asked Boshoff to elaborate via email.Carel Boshoff IV, president of the Orania Movement.

Put to work largely farming and building, there's zero tolerance of substance abuse for these men who had been "total 'come-aparts'.". ".For others however, their Afrikaner identity is sacrosanct. Might end up as a target for expropriation?If they not hurting anyone, just let them be. The,In its embattled state, Afrikaner history becomes hagiography. Established in 2006, while they "believe the revolution will start with black-on-black violence, they fear that aggression will quickly focus on white people," writes the author. ".The threat is often existential and "othering" of the black population is still prevalent, a point made clear by the Suidlanders Norman meets, a group of Afrikaner "preppers" not affiliated with Orania, planning for the event of a revolution. As such, the community is able to maintain more control over who is permitted into the collective.Nelson Mandela visited in 1995, Norman writing that Orania's residents "greeted him politely and said they'd love to see him as president... of a neighboring country." ".Kobus Gouws and Caspar Muller, step-brothers interviewed by Norman and residents of Sunshine Corner, a township outside of Pretoria.Riaan, one of the residents of Kleingeluk, small apartments for single male workers in Orania.Stubble burning on one of Orania's farms, circa 2003.Two young men having a drink in Orania, circa 2013.A young boy rides a toy tractor next to a mural of Orania's emblem.In the beginning [...] we were regarded as mad," Boshoff tells Norman. Instead, the community has gained a notoriety beyond its modest means as a parochial enclave within the Rainbow Nation, where the dream of an Afrikaner state is alive and well.Orania, you might have guessed, is Afrikaner-only. Orania is so safe that no police station is needed – an important attraction in a country with a notoriously high crime rate. The efforts of the pioneering.

For them it was a system that gave order.“It [apartheid] didn’t affect me. ",The disavowal for some is extreme. Norman asks Boshoff in one of their interviews. You don’t have that where you live,” he tells me.He blames FW de Klerk, the last Afrikaner to rule South Africa, for the plight of his people.“He gave away the country for nothing. "They may realize that things are just as bad for the majority of the black population, but they're used to being in a place where that couldn't happen to a white person. Wouldn't be surprised if it's targeted in the land expropriation though.If the shit kicks off its the first place they'll target with violence to make an example.What aggravates that potential situation is that I'm sure the people of Orania are the type of people who will be armed and will rather go out in a bloody last stand than run.

The son-in-law of H.F. Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, he and a number of families purchased an abandoned workers' village with lofty ambitions that one day hundreds of thousands of Afrikaners might call it home.When Boshoff III died in 2011, his son Carel Jr. assumed presidency of the Orania Movement, the political arm of the community. You can walk in the street at 3am without any fear. It's a romanticized image for a romanticized notion: a place where Afrikaners can be Afrikaners. Street signs, town names, rivers, mountains, dams, even airports, have lost their Afrikaans monikers in recent years. Tough, resourceful and making do; descendants of Dutch settlers and proud of it.A remote farming town of approximately 1,300, Orania by this description is unremarkable. "I think the more divided a society is, the more support you're going to get for these types of initiatives.

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