The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in the Northern Cape have called for an urgent legal review of the existence of Orania, saying that “we cannot allow to have a country within a country.” Led by Provincial Chairperson Commissar Shadrack Tlhaole, the party staged a powerful march to the offices of the Northern Cape Premier on Tuesday, demanding that the provincial government take immediate action against what they call racial segregation disguised as self-determination.

Orania, a privately-owned town situated in the Karoo, remains reserved exclusively for white Afrikaners more than three decades after South Africa transitioned to democracy. Only individuals who identify as white and Afrikaans-speaking are allowed to live there, a practice that the EFF says is unconstitutional and fundamentally undermines the values of a united South Africa.

EFF Leads the Charge Against Segregation

Reading from a memorandum of demands handed over to government officials, Tlhaole made it clear that the EFF would not rest until Orania was dismantled or legally forced to open its doors to all South Africans.

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