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The average wage in Orania was estimated at approximately R94,036 per annum in 2019, [168] low by White South African standards. [citation needed] The lack of cheap labour means that living in Orania is more expensive than the rest of South Africa; [171] at the same time, unskilled workers are scarce. [172]
Florida Lake is a large area of water south of the railway line. It is flanked by residential properties to the north, and parklands to the east and west. The main road through Florida, Goldman Street, forms the spine for local business activity and civic services. The local library is one of the best facilities of its kind in Johannesburg.
Set up in the 1990s by and for the Afrikaner community, Orania was created as a safe place for the community to live and work. [3] Following the end of apartheid in 1995, more and more Afrikaners moved to the town, and its population grew from 40 families to 3,000 people.
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Human rights in South Africa are protected under the constitution. The 1998 Human Rights report by Myles Nadioo noted that the government generally respected the rights of the citizens; however, there were concerns over the use of force by law enforcement, legal proceedings and discrimination. [ 1 ]
English is the second most spoken language among white Africans, spoken by 39% of South Africa's, 7% of Namibia's, and 90% of Zimbabwe's white population. In South Africa they remain the dominant white ethnic group in KwaZulu-Natal, while in Gauteng and the Western Cape they also contribute to a large percentage of the English-speaking population.
The interesting thing is that the spring sits in a neighborhood that, before it was white, was mixed-race—the kind of neighborhood that, in South Africa, tends to be a source of special tension, because even relatively longtime homeowners worry that the descendants of residents evicted decades ago could lay a legal claim to the land.
South Africa's Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, passed in 1949 under apartheid, forbade marriages between whites and anyone who was deemed to be non-whites. The Population Registration Act (No. 30) of 1950 provided the basis for separating the population of South Africa into different races. Under the terms of this act, all residents of ...