in this video i'm heading for the very center of south africa and a controversial town called orania
if you put your finger on a map of south africa roughly in the middle
that will be approximately orania and that's where i'm going now i'm just approaching upington
now after leaving augrabies a bit earlier quite a controversial place i think it's a place that
many people will find interesting
vineyards are irrigated from the orange river so it's very very green
a good part of the route took me along gravel back roads there's been
a lot of rain recently so the roads were not always in that good condition
i'm at the confluence of the vaal and orange rivers i just happened to be driving past and
saw the sign so thought that i might as well go in
aan die oewer at orania i was going to camp but i
really didn't feel like setting up a tent so i've taken a chalet this one
nice and shady because it is really hot
and that's it
nice green grass everywhere shady there's all chalets that you can rent there's a
hotel there's a restaurant there's a spa there's a little shop and get your essentials
monument kopie and behind me are busts of
past presidents of south africa the town that we now call orania initiated as a accommodation for
workers working on the canals from the vanderkloof dam believe it
was 1963 thereabouts i'll put the date down below it's got a population of around 2000
and quite honestly i mean it's a bustling little town there's a lot of construction going on
there's shopping centers it's actually bisected by main road there's a main road that runs right
through the middle of town it's a saturday today we're quite early in the morning so it's fairly
quiet you can see it's just so green and that is the result of the the irrigation canals that the
houses below me were built to house the workers the town was started by karel boshoff who was
the son-in-law of hf verwoerd who was the the guy that was in charge when apartheid
was introduced to south africa and his idea was to have an area of south africa which was only
for afrikaan speakers and i can't comment on the right or wrong of that this is not a political
channel doesn't have a political opinion i'm just here because it's a very different place and
this is orania love it or hate it this is what it is if you enjoyed the video please
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