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KYK VIDEO: Het eNCA se aanval op Orania geslaag?

KYK VIDEO: Het eNCA se aanval op Orania geslaag?

KYK VIDEO: Het eNCA se aanval op Orania
geslaag?

 

KYK DIE VOLLE ONDERHOUD:
Orania deel vanaf 5.44 minute

The last word?

Orania het die afgelope tyd baie positiewe aandag getrek met verskillende suksesvolle infrastruktuurprojekte, groei, ORASOL (Orania se eie sonplaas) en meer.

Ten spyte daarvan is daar altyd nog hoofstroommedia wat Orania se bestaansreg wil ontken, en Orania wil uitmaak as agterlik, versukkeld en vasgevang in die verlede.

Shahan Ramkissoon van die eNCA het Joost Strydom van die Orania Beweging genooi vir ‘n Orania onderhoud oor “Orania se groei, ORASOL, Gayton McKenzie se besoek en die nuwe ora reeks (Orania se eie ‘geldstelsel’)”. Soos wat baie keer die geval is, het dit ontaard in ‘n blatante en herhalende aanval teen Orania.

Laat weet ons gerus; dink jy hierdie is billike en objektiewe joernalistiek?

Steun Orania wanneer die media ons aanval!

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Onderhoud: Marokkaanse koerant Maroc Hebdo met Joost Strydom, na afloop van reuse steun vir Orania uit Marokko

Onderhoud: Marokkaanse koerant Maroc Hebdo met Joost Strydom, na afloop van reuse steun vir Orania uit Marokko

Onderhoud: Marokkaanse koerant Maroc Hebdo met Joost Strydom, na afloop van reuse steun vir Orania uit Marokko.

 

Maroc Hebdo: How did you receive the support of Raja supporters?

Joost: The Orania Movement uses social media to spread our cause, inform people and keep international friends of the Afrikaner and Orania informed of the situation and risks for us because of government policy. We were flabbergasted and very surprised to see massive support from Morocco one morning! First we weren’t quite sure exactly what happened and why- but on Twitter posts the picture became clear: The people of Morocco were standing in support of Orania and our quest for freedom!

 

Maroc Hebdo :Did you expect to be known in Morocco?

Joost: Not at all, in the challenging situation in South-Africa, we sometimes feel very alone and forsaken. As if the world has forgotten about the Afrikaner in our time of need.
The Fact that people in Morocco knew about Orania is a testament that 1. The Orania idea is gaining worldwide popularity because communities see that this is a viable option for Afrikaners and many other groups- Orania is gaining more and more international attention! 2. Its also a testament that Orania has international friends that we don’t even know about. What a comforting feeling that people know of the situation in South-Africa and the tyrannical policies of the ANC. It shows that we are neither forgotten nor alone. The time is ripe for the Orania idea!

 

Maroc Hebdo: Obviously not all Moroccans know about your movement. How would you present it to someone who is unfamiliar with it and with South Africa’s context in general?

Joost: Orania is in the extremely challenging and privileged situation to break new ground for alternative idealists and communities worldwide. The reason for this is: Orania is BOTH an idea and a home for people. To be either is easy, to be both is challenging!”

Orania is two things; a freedom-organisation carrying the torch for Afrikaners and other groups alike, not only proving that freedom is necessary, but also that it is possible.

Furthermore, Orania is a home in the deepest sense of the word. A home for members of a volk that got sold out, humiliated, and deeply wounded but never conquered.

In a country where Afrikaners are outnumbered 20:1, Orania is not just the only hope for Afrikaner-freedom, but also becoming the last resort for survival – both physically and as a survival place for language, religion, and a balanced world view.

Orania is a solution-driven, bigger picture community, meaning that we have a plan for ourselves but also suggestions for others, including the rest of our country. We believe in a confederate-system as possible solution for a country so diverse that it claims eleven official languages!

Orania faces multiple challenges; firstly, to educate both friend and foe of our (ethical and workable) idea, and secondly to physically and ideologically survive and / or thrive in a very dangerous and hostile host country.

Any chance of survival, let alone the opportunity to flourish, should start with solving Afrikaners’ (and others’) main challenge: demographics. In a country (as created by the British empire with zero regard for local institutional arrangements and landownership) where Afrikaners are locked into a geographical ‘country’ the size of 16 Western European countries and outnumbered 1:20, demographics is a serious challenge. Why?

Afrikaner culture, religion, language, and values have zero ‘say’ in a one man one vote democracy and is simply disregarded. Furthermore, Afrikaners as previous minority rulers who lost everything, is actively hated and held responsible for a country in decay. There is no way to maintain your ways.

Demographic challenges cannot be overcome economically, militarily, or even politically! It must be solved demographically.

Orania started just that; by relocating to a barren, almost unpopulated part of semi-desert in the middle of the country where the weather is harsh, and resources are scarce.

The Karoo-area in South-Africa is so scarcely populated that Afrikaners have the opportunity to become a demographic majority in a geographical area. By achieving this, Oranians are creating a de facto reality; one where we can maintain our own culture, religion, control of our children’s futures and more.

Another aspect, which is hard for Europeans to understand because they already practice this, is the idea of own labour. In short, labour practices create demographic realities. If you import cheap labour from external communities not of the same culture, you change demographic realities forever.

The other two pillars of the Orania plan are own institutions and own land. The former is a set of independent institutions, from sosio-economic and education, to financial, religious,

and production-related – everything people would need when their own state is a) antagonistic and b) incompetent. The latter is logical in a time and age where land is so controversial in South-Africa, legally acquired land big enough to start a community.

What we built:

The Orania community, taking up alternative non-mainstream measures, since the political inception of the idea, has created a set of alternatives including an own ‘currency’, own banking system, own labour practises, own safety and security in a professional, legal and effective manner, created an own justice system, and won a court case against the state (and all odds!) to become a unique and independent municipality.

Orania has managed to organise the community with population of about 2500, to grow about 10% every year! However, in 2020, our census showed a growth of 16.5%.

In terms of new businesses, we are seeing growth of about 25% per year. The main economic sectors in Orania are retail, construction, tourism, and service delivery. One of two local schools doubled in attending children, in a span of 5 years. The local tertiary training institution grew from five attendees to twenty to fifty to one hundred in four years. Medical, security and professional services are growing by the day. However, looking beyond the buildings, the institutions, and services, Orania’s main success is its strongly determined and wildly enthusiastic people.

Oranians push with an unspeakable determination against almost hopeless circumstances. And that, paired with a shared HOME, makes every challenge worthwhile!

 

 Maroc Hebdo : Afrikaner nationalist movements are often associated with apartheid in its racialist sense. Does Orania identify with it?

Joost: The Orania-idea is in not inherently racist. To tell the truth, Apartheid did not end in South-Africa. The state enforced policy shifted to economically enforced. Massive inequality and horrible living conditions is still the norm in South-Africa. Racial tension is high because of ANC-policy enforcing more than 120 laws based on race!
In contrast with the ANC’s racism, which created more problems than it solved, Orania’s community based approach is balanced and acknowledge all the peoples and nations of South-Africa. It is evident from Orania’s official and diplomatic liaison with black traditional communities which also strives towards higher levels of self-sufficiency.

Orania broke away from colonial and apartheid era labour practices by endorsing the idea of “own labour” something very unusual in South-Africa. All the work in Orania is done by Afrikaners/residents of  Orania.
(This exploits no one else, while empowering Afrikaners in own right! – red)

Orania has been called “the antidote” to Apartheid by a journalist who understood the massive undertaking of own labour policies.

 

 Maroc Hebdo: Have you ever been in touch with Moroccan authorities?

Joost: Not yet! Orania have hosted officials from various governments, and we are always open for conversation and higher levels of acknowledgment and respect. It’s wonderful to experience non-expected support.

Maroc Hebdo: Morocco has, throughout its history, always supported self-determination movements such as Algeria’s starting from its independence in the mid-1950s, but it also wants to make a distinction with purely separatist movements since it is directly affected by the situation in its Sahara. In what way does Orania constitute an authentic self-determination movement?

Joost: Orania is an authentic self-determination movement in the deepest sense of the word. Why?
Firstly; we ask only what we wish the other nations of the country. We do not want to rule anyone but ourselves.
We define freedom as: Not being ruled over by others, but also not ruling over others!
Orania also embrace a system for South-Africa of “community of communities. Meaning; it is time for the outdated ANC system of central government in South-Africa to end, it is not working great for anyone and it is working horribly for some.

A community of communities means place for everyone, and good relationships, trade, communications and more between groups. The friction that ANC policy is causing, can only be solved by managing such friction by creating a community of communities.

Secondly. Oranians are not claiming the high value mining areas or the rich vineyards of South-Africa, but rather a semi desert area in the Northern Cape, where there are almost no population.
An area not wanted by many will be converted into a home for Afrikaners.


Thirdly Afrikaners are a defined group. Culturally, religiously, and more we are identifiable as a homogeneous group. We have a unique culture, own language, and practices.

A definable, identifiable group, with a own culture and claim for an own piece of land.
We do not demand anything from anyone else, we only expect that the government acknowledge us as people.

And even if they refuse us that very basic right- we will continue to build a home for ourselves, with the help of many international friends!

word 'n lid!

Orania Beweging nuusstories word volledig deur ons lede befonds. Indien u hierdie storie geniet het, sluit aan as lid deur hierdie skakel te volg. Baie dankie!

Orania Beweging-nuusspan

Opgestel deur die Orania Beweging se nuusspan

Hierdie berig is deur die Orania Beweging-nuusspan geskryf, verwerf of opgestel.
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Orania Dorpsraad: mees sonkragvriendelike plaaslike owerheid in die land?

Orania Dorpsraad: mees sonkragvriendelike plaaslike owerheid in die land?

Orania Dorpsraad:
mees sonkragvriendelike
plaaslike owerheid in die land?

 

 

Orania en Oraniërs is van die beginjare af al baie gefokus op hoër vlakke van energie-onafhanklikheid. Orasol is Orania se eie sonkragverskaffer wat deur die owerheidstrukture help ontwikkel word. Privaat inisiatief is egter ook baie belangrik. Die Dorpsraad help om privaat inisiatiewe aan te moedig.

 

Foto: ‘n Deel van ORASOL soos uit die lug gesien

Die munisipaliteit van Kaapstad het onlangs goeie nuus aangekondig: NERSA (die nasionale energiereguleerder) het ‘n uitbetaling van 78.98c per eenheid vir elektrisiteit wat huishoudings of besighede van sonkragstelsels af in die netwerk terugvoer, goedgekeur. Kaapstad Munisipaliteit het ‘n ekstra 25c per kWh aangebied om terugvoer aan te moedig. Dit is ‘n groottotaal van R1,03.

Orania bied alreeds ɸ1.51 ( een ora = R1) per kWh vir privaatopwekking aan en beplan om dit in April nog meer te maak!

Die Orania Dorpsraad maak ook die proses baie maklik, en hou aansluitingskostes laag, om elke Oraniër wat kan, aan te moedig om te begin met eie opwekking.
Die totale poging tussen Orasol en privaatinisiatief in Orania beteken dat 33.3% van Orania se kragverbruik nie meer by Eskom aangekoop word nie, maar self opgewek word!

 

Foto: ‘n Eie sonkragstelsel hou hierdie besigheid in Orania aan die gang!

 

Orania se sonplaas se eerste fase is in 2022 voltooi, en het reeds ‘n reuse-impak op Orania se ekonomie. Alhoewel Orania nog nie beurtkragvry is nie, word projekte beplan waaronder broodnodige uitbreiding van Orasol om so gou as moontlik, so onafhanklik as moontlik van ESKOM te word.

Orania Dorpsraad en Orasol het reeds belangrike regulatoriese prosesse by NERSA afgehandel en besef dat inisiatief nou nodig is, sodat ESKOM nie Orania se groei verder kan terughou nie.
Persone wat belangstel sal ook in Orasol kan belê.

 

word 'n lid!

Orania Beweging nuusstories word volledig deur ons lede befonds. Indien u hierdie storie geniet het, sluit aan as lid deur hierdie skakel te volg. Baie dankie!

Orania Beweging-nuusspan

Opgestel deur die Orania Beweging se nuusspan

Hierdie berig is deur die Orania Beweging-nuusspan geskryf, verwerf of opgestel.
Eksterne bronne of berigte kry volledige erkenning vir gebruik in stories.
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Orania CVO-skool: rekord van ‘n 100% matriekslaagsyfer sedert die skool se ontstaan word voortgesit

Orania CVO-skool: rekord van ‘n 100% matriekslaagsyfer sedert die skool se ontstaan word voortgesit

Orania CVO-skool se rekord van ‘n 100% matriekslaagsyfer sedert die skool se ontstaan word voortgesit

 

Baie geluk aan Orania CVO-skool se leerlinge wat vandag uitstekende uitslae ontvang het!
Dié skool, wat uit ‘n voorskoolse sentrum, laer- en hoërskool bestaan, spog vanjaar met 540 ingeskrewe skoliere. Verledejaar (2022) se matriekuitslae is ook pas deur die onafhanklike eksamenraad IEB bekendgemaak. Almal het geslaag, en dus die 100% slaagsyfer vir die afgelope 30 jaar voortgesit.

Van die matrieks het 82% toelating gekry vir baccalaureus-studies by ‘n universiteit. Daarmee saam is 16 A-vakgemiddeldes en 25 B’s en 32 C’s. Die drie top presteerders, elkeen met drie onderskeidings, het ook hulle toekomsplanne bekendgemaak (lees hieronder)

Baie geluk aan elke matriek, en baie sterkte vir elkeen in die klas met hulle toekomsplanne.
Baie geluk ook aan die ouers, onderwysers en almal wat by die skool betrokke is.

• Stephan Bredenhann doen die beste. Hy gaan BSc Rekenaarwetenskappe in Stellenbosch studeer.
• Leané Nothnagel doen die tweede beste. Sy gaan B.Com Ondernemingsbestuur by Akademia studeer.
• Jana Tomlinson doen die derde beste en sy gaan BSc Agric Dierekunde by Tukkies studeer.

Stephan Bredenhann

Leané Nothnagel

Jana Tomlinson

(Volkskool Orania, Orania se ander hoër- en laerskool, se punte sal binnekort bekendgemaak word)

word 'n lid!

Orania Beweging nuusstories word volledig deur ons lede befonds. Indien u hierdie storie geniet het, sluit aan as lid deur hierdie skakel te volg. Baie dankie!

Orania Beweging-nuusspan

Opgestel deur die Orania Beweging se nuusspan

Hierdie berig is deur die Orania Beweging-nuusspan geskryf, verwerf of opgestel.
Eksterne bronne of berigte kry volledige erkenning vir gebruik in stories.
Nuus kan gestuur word na inligting@orania.co.za

KYK VIDEO | ORASOL: Orania se eie sonplaas en die eerste stap na energie-onafhanklikheid

KYK VIDEO | ORASOL: Orania se eie sonplaas en die eerste stap na energie-onafhanklikheid

ORASOL:
orania se eie sonplaas en die
eerste stap na energie-
onafhanklikheid

 

“ORASOL het vir homself die doel gestel – totale energie-onafhanklikheid vir Orania, en hoewel dit nog ‘n pad is om te stap, het ons reeds begin!”- Riaan Jacobs, projekbestuurder.

ORASOL, Orania se eie sonplaas, se eerste fase is ten volle operasioneel. Dit beteken elke minuut wat die son skyn, word daar energie in Orania produseer! ORASOL is ‘n inisiatief, wat soos baie ander in Orania, ‘n samewerking tussen owerheid en ‘n kommersiële-model is. Omdat Orania geen munisipale-subsidie, of enige ander staatsgeld, kry nie, moet elke Orania projek op sy eie bene kan staan.

Die twee afdelings van ORASOL se eerste fase funksioneer nou ten volle. Dit is die eerste fase van drie intree-fases van hierdie projek. Saam met privaatinisiatief in Orania (wat ten sterkste aangemoedig word) kan ORASOL ongeveer 30% van Orania se totale kragbehoefte diens. Die tweede en derde fase word beplan om Orania totaal beurtkrag-vry te maak van 06:00 soggens tot 22:00 saans, die ekonomies produktiewe tye. Orania kan nie bekostig om ekonomies stil te staan nie, die gemeenskap moet ekonomies aktief te wees sodat meer en groter geleenthede geskep kan word vir Afrikaners om in Orania te vestig. ORASOL het reeds NERSA (Die nasionale energiereguleerder) se toestemming om krag in die ESKOM netwerk terug te stoot (wanneer daar meer opgewek word as wat Orania op daardie stadium gebruik) en wag tans vir die amptelike dokumentasie.
Dit sal beteken dat die opwekkingskapasiteit drasties vergroot sal kan word, samelopend word daar ook beplan om bergingskapasiteit te ontwikkel: batterye wat Orania, in die genoemde tye, deur beurtkrag kan dra. Orania is ongelukkig nog nie tans beurtkrag-vry nie, die stelsel is aan die nasionale netwerk gekoppel en sal eers werklik onafhanklik begin raak wanneer daar voldoende bergingsfasiliteite is. Die sonplaas kan tans 841kWp (kilowatt op piek) opwek.

 

Foto: ‘n Deel van ORASOL soos uit die lug gesien

ORASOL & Privaat-inisiatief

Soos hierbo genoem, kan ORASOL en die privaat sonkragstelsels saam naastenby 30% van Orania se energiebehoeftes diens. Dit beteken 30% van Orania se energie-koste vloei nie uit Orania uit nie! Die tipe Afrikaner wat in Orania kom vestig, of tot die Orania-idee aangetrokke is, is meestal in tipe mense wat in selfstandigheid belangstel. Dit beteken ook privaatpersone wil graag meer selfstandig en minder afhanklik van die staat wees.

 

Foto: Privaat sonkragstelsels sigbaar vanuit die lug

Dit is uiters belangrik dat die Dorpsraad ook hierdie selfstandigheid help insentifiseer.
Orania is waarskynlik die mees gunstige munisipaliteit vir netwerk-terugvoer, wat in die res van die land SSEG heet (small scale embeded generation) is natuurlik in Orania KASIKO (Kleinskaalse ingebedde kragopwekking, ons eie woord!). Dit is goedkoop, maklik en lonend om krag te help terugvoer in die netwerk. So versprei ons Orania se onafhanklikheidsvlakke, en almal help daaraan ontwikkel.

 

Finansiering:  Waar kom die geld vir die ontwikkeling vandaan?

Die ontwikkeling van ‘n sonplaas is uiteraard ‘n baie duur proses, en ORASOL moes volhoubare planne maak om die projek te befonds.  Die Orania manier is om projekte vir die gemeenskap te kommersialiseer, sodat gemeenskapsprojekte in eie reg op hulle eie bene kan staan. ORASOL is geen uitsondering nie, die projek moet op ‘n wyse bedryf kan word dat dit ‘n wins maak om beleggers te kan diens en groei te help fasiliteer.

 

Foto: ORASOL tydens konstruksie

 

ORASOL het twee aandeelhouers (soos verduidelik in die video) maar verskeie beleggers (almal uit eie kraal en die saak goedgesind, het help belê. Die beleggers verdien weer ‘n opbrengs op hulle beleggings deur ORASOL se kragverkope, en ORASOL kan met ekonomie van skaal groei.

ORASOL wek dus sonkrag op wat aan die munisipaliteit verkoop word teen normale kragtariewe. Vanuit daardie inkomste word die belegging gediens en groei beplan. Hoe groter ORASOL kan uitbrei, hoe beter opbrengs (en dus groeipotensiaal) is daar.

Die energie-toekoms in Orania?

Energie is wêreldwyd ‘n aktuele kwessie. Van die huidige gebeure in Rusland/Oekraine/Europa, tot brandstof en brandstofkostes.

Vroeë Orania-denkers het sedert die eerste gesprekke oor die Orania-idee (deur SABRA so vroeg as die 1950’s) tot met AVSTIG (Waaruit die Orania Beweging ontstaan het) en die koop van Orania as dorp (1991) geweet energie-onafhanklikheid is ‘n kritiese punt vir Orania se oorlewing.
Eskom se drastiese agteruitgang en wanvermoë om die land se basiese energiebehoeftes te diens, het opnuut ‘n dringendheid aangewakker by Oraniërs om energie-selfstandigheid te help ontwikkel.

Son-, wind- en selfs hidro-kragoplossings is moontlikhede in die Karoo en breë Orania gebied. Son is egter by verre die mees gunstige in hierdie klimaat en terrein. Verskeie ander moontlikhede kan ook nog vir ‘n groeiende Orania ondersoek word.

Vir eers egter, vier Orania die sukses van sy groeiende sonplaas!

 

word 'n lid!

Orania Beweging nuusstories word volledig deur ons lede befonds. Indien u hierdie storie geniet het, sluit aan as lid deur hierdie skakel te volg. Baie dankie!

Orania Beweging-nuusspan

Opgestel deur die Orania Beweging se nuusspan

Hierdie berig is deur die Orania Beweging-nuusspan geskryf, verwerf of opgestel.
Eksterne bronne of berigte kry volledige erkenning vir gebruik in stories.
Nuus kan gestuur word na inligting@orania.co.za