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A Visit to Orania – June 2009

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Original Post Date: 2010-12-29 Time: 11:00:13  Posted By: Yoel Lerner

Just over eighteen months ago, my wife Sara and I made a short eight-day visit to South Africa. For me it was a return visit and an educational one – I had spent twelve of the first eighteen years of my life there, the last six of those in Johannesburg, where I finished Standard V at Saxonwold Primary School (1952) and then attended Parktown Boys’ High where I matriculated in 1957. For my wife it was a first visit. For both of us the climax of our trip was the few hours we spent in Orania. We met with many fascinating and friendly people, people I had previously known only from the internet (we even met with an old classmate of mine from my days at Parktown), but our talk and tour with John Strydom and Franz de Klerk of Orania were indeed special. Others who were gracious enough to devote their time and energies to us include Chris Van Zyl of TAU, Kallie Kriel of AfriForum, and Adv. Paul Kruger, not to mention my old internet pals, Jan Lamprecht and Conrad Cockcroft. All the people we met were staunch, proud Afrikaners – a nation I was thrilled to renew my acquaintance with after so many years of separation, and after almost fifty years in Israel, where I built my adult life as an educator, a linguist and a translator.

My visit to South Africa came years after I had gone on record in Israel’s prestigious daily newspaper, Ha-Aretz (= “The Land”), during the period of the completely unjustified international assault on South Africa (climaxing in 1986 and 1987), expressing my support for a continuation and deepening of the intimate relationship that had developed between SA and Israel since 1976 (and even before) when Prime Minister Vorster made his historic visit to Israel and met with the leaders of my country.

Today one of my main interests is assisting in any way I can to the realization of the Afrikaner dream of renewed sovereignty over at least part of their homeland. The articles I propose to post here will all bear that banner.

I wish the entire Afrikaner nation the very best for the coming new year.