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All-White Town Wants To Continue With Segregation
June 21, 2013 | Filed under: BizTechNews | Posted by: Yolanda
By Yolanda Spivey
An all-white community located in Kleinfontein South Africa, is fighting to stay segregated, although the country has moved on from the era of apartheid, a regime that has ended less than 25 years ago.
Marisa Haasbroek, a writer and mother who serves as a spokeswoman stated, “We feel that our culture is being threatened and we want to protect it and we want to nurture it.”
The community, which has been in existence since 1992, sits on 2,000 acres of land; all fenced in, and has about 1,000 residents. A guard in fatigues stand at the entrance 24/7, and at its entrance sits a statue of Henrik Verwoerd, who is credited as being the father of apartheid.
Signs that read, “We are here to stay,” are displayed throughout the community. Before any new residents move in, they must fill out an application and embrace the community’s “core values.” All applicants must be approved by a committee.
Residents state the high crime rate and institutionalized affirmative action was the result of many of them forming the cooperative town.
Haasbroek states, “My son is the tenth generation in South Africa. We are not colonists. We have been here for generations and generations building up the roads, making the infrastructure. And suddenly we don’t feel welcome anymore.”
Johann Foley, a 76 year old lifelong Afrikaan concurred. He said, “We are worrying about black people. Every time they get their hands on something, it is going bankrupt, there are troubles. White people gave them clothes, an education.”
Czerina Patel, a journalist who is the executive director of Yenza, a charity that works with disadvantaged young people states, “The fact that there are children growing up there and being indoctrinated with hateful ideology that paints all black people as criminals, that really concerns me. The bottom line is [if a non-white] Afrikaans-speaking person wanted to live there they couldn’t.”
The residents are defending their views by stating “they want to preserve their culture and language.” Critics argue the mere existence of the community is a clear rejection of Nelson Mandela’s vision to build a racially harmonious nation.
All-White Town Wants To Continue With Segregation
June 21, 2013 | Filed under: BizTechNews | Posted by: Yolanda
By Yolanda Spivey
An all-white community located in Kleinfontein South Africa, is fighting to stay segregated, although the country has moved on from the era of apartheid, a regime that has ended less than 25 years ago.
Marisa Haasbroek, a writer and mother who serves as a spokeswoman stated, “We feel that our culture is being threatened and we want to protect it and we want to nurture it.”
The community, which has been in existence since 1992, sits on 2,000 acres of land; all fenced in, and has about 1,000 residents. A guard in fatigues stand at the entrance 24/7, and at its entrance sits a statue of Henrik Verwoerd, who is credited as being the father of apartheid.
Signs that read, “We are here to stay,” are displayed throughout the community. Before any new residents move in, they must fill out an application and embrace the community’s “core values.” All applicants must be approved by a committee.
Residents state the high crime rate and institutionalized affirmative action was the result of many of them forming the cooperative town.
Haasbroek states, “My son is the tenth generation in South Africa. We are not colonists. We have been here for generations and generations building up the roads, making the infrastructure. And suddenly we don’t feel welcome anymore.”
Johann Foley, a 76 year old lifelong Afrikaan concurred. He said, “We are worrying about black people. Every time they get their hands on something, it is going bankrupt, there are troubles. White people gave them clothes, an education.”
Czerina Patel, a journalist who is the executive director of Yenza, a charity that works with disadvantaged young people states, “The fact that there are children growing up there and being indoctrinated with hateful ideology that paints all black people as criminals, that really concerns me. The bottom line is [if a non-white] Afrikaans-speaking person wanted to live there they couldn’t.”
The residents are defending their views by stating “they want to preserve their culture and language.” Critics argue the mere existence of the community is a clear rejection of Nelson Mandela’s vision to build a racially harmonious nation.
No wonder there are no young people in that photo 
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