Major Chimp-out
11-21-2008, 03:58 AM
What happens when a group of humans decides to buy a small town in a dusty desert in central South Afreeka and not allow any niggers ? It prospers. They farm sucessfully and have their own currency. The niggers camped around the town in their shacks & huts find it all very ray-ciss. The town is Orania.
When the Department of Water Affairs embarked on the building of the Vanderkloof dam and irrigation canals, they found it necessary to build a village to accommodate their labour force. That is how, in 1963, the village came to be built halfway between Hopetown and Petrusville on the banks of the Orange River. At first the village was known as Vluytjeskraal, that being the name of the farm on which the development took place. However, the local engineer, Norman Landsdell, organised a competition for the selection of a suitable name, and Orania came out on top.
The village was developed from scratch with pre-fab houses, but with large plots and broad side-walks. A multi-purpose community hall, a large swimming pool, tennis courts and a squash court provided adequate sporting facilities. Orania became the best developed village hereabouts once the post office, a guest house, a clinic, a shop, a church building and a school were added.
But about twenty years later when the work had been completed the Water Affairs labour force moved elsewhere. The village slowly deteriorated. The gardens were taken over by weeds and vandals broke window-panes, took out built-in cupboards and began to remove whatever could be removed. The houses became derelict shells in overgrown gardens. Then some of the pre-fab structures were sold by tender leaving only the concrete foundations.
In 1990 the government decided to sell what remained of the village as a single entity. Members of Afstig (the Afrikaner Freedom Movement) saw the advertisement in Landbouweekblad and decided to tender. They collected a group of shareholders and not long afterwards Orania was bought by the newly developed Orania Bestuursdienste (OBD) for R1,5 million. The village took on a new lease in life.
On 11 April 1991 Orania was officially opened.. Houses were offered for sale at prices between R31,000 and R41,000. In August 1991 the neighbouring farm Vluytjekraal 272 (approximately 2,300 hectare) was bought for a further R480,000 thus providing for agricultural development. The town council came into being and took over the management of the village from OBD. The first mayor was Andre van den Berg who also developed Kenweb.
Today, ten years later, Orania is a flourishing little town. The houses have been repaired and the gardens have been tidied up. Various undertakings have come into being to serve the community, and there are now two schools with pupils from grade 1 to matric. The community has come alive again.
http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=38357&
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orania,_Northern_Cape
http://www.orania.co.za/default_eng.asp
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alanaubry/sets/72157608619094315/
http://www.orania.co.za/images/kaart.gifhttp://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1204/csmimg/p10b.gif
http://www.karooimages.co.za/pix/scene/scene17_big.jpg http://www.karooimages.co.za/pix/town/town28_big.jpg
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/02/27/world/27safrica_1_600.jpg http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1070000/images/_1073712_orania300.jpg
http://www.silowarehouse.co.za/Images/Projects/2%20x%2055mt%20feedbins%20-%20Orania%20.jpg
http://www.vleissentraalbhm-rtproperties.co.za/LouwVanBiljon/Orania-plot.JPG
Proof (as if it were needed) that niggers = FAIL
When the Department of Water Affairs embarked on the building of the Vanderkloof dam and irrigation canals, they found it necessary to build a village to accommodate their labour force. That is how, in 1963, the village came to be built halfway between Hopetown and Petrusville on the banks of the Orange River. At first the village was known as Vluytjeskraal, that being the name of the farm on which the development took place. However, the local engineer, Norman Landsdell, organised a competition for the selection of a suitable name, and Orania came out on top.
The village was developed from scratch with pre-fab houses, but with large plots and broad side-walks. A multi-purpose community hall, a large swimming pool, tennis courts and a squash court provided adequate sporting facilities. Orania became the best developed village hereabouts once the post office, a guest house, a clinic, a shop, a church building and a school were added.
But about twenty years later when the work had been completed the Water Affairs labour force moved elsewhere. The village slowly deteriorated. The gardens were taken over by weeds and vandals broke window-panes, took out built-in cupboards and began to remove whatever could be removed. The houses became derelict shells in overgrown gardens. Then some of the pre-fab structures were sold by tender leaving only the concrete foundations.
In 1990 the government decided to sell what remained of the village as a single entity. Members of Afstig (the Afrikaner Freedom Movement) saw the advertisement in Landbouweekblad and decided to tender. They collected a group of shareholders and not long afterwards Orania was bought by the newly developed Orania Bestuursdienste (OBD) for R1,5 million. The village took on a new lease in life.
On 11 April 1991 Orania was officially opened.. Houses were offered for sale at prices between R31,000 and R41,000. In August 1991 the neighbouring farm Vluytjekraal 272 (approximately 2,300 hectare) was bought for a further R480,000 thus providing for agricultural development. The town council came into being and took over the management of the village from OBD. The first mayor was Andre van den Berg who also developed Kenweb.
Today, ten years later, Orania is a flourishing little town. The houses have been repaired and the gardens have been tidied up. Various undertakings have come into being to serve the community, and there are now two schools with pupils from grade 1 to matric. The community has come alive again.
http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=38357&
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orania,_Northern_Cape
http://www.orania.co.za/default_eng.asp
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alanaubry/sets/72157608619094315/
http://www.orania.co.za/images/kaart.gifhttp://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1204/csmimg/p10b.gif
http://www.karooimages.co.za/pix/scene/scene17_big.jpg http://www.karooimages.co.za/pix/town/town28_big.jpg
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/02/27/world/27safrica_1_600.jpg http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1070000/images/_1073712_orania300.jpg
http://www.silowarehouse.co.za/Images/Projects/2%20x%2055mt%20feedbins%20-%20Orania%20.jpg
http://www.vleissentraalbhm-rtproperties.co.za/LouwVanBiljon/Orania-plot.JPG
Proof (as if it were needed) that niggers = FAIL