00:00It's a far cry from the rainbow nation.
00:03South Africa's whites-only Afrikaner enclave Orania this year celebrates its 35th anniversary.
00:11Founded in the Northern Cape province, it now counts just over 3,000 residents,
00:16a tiny percentage of the country's 2.6 million Afrikaner population.
00:23Practically, it's got very little influence on the rest of the country's politics.
00:26We're a few people that want to build a future for ourselves, far away from everything.
00:32Anyone wanting to move to Orania needs to apply.
00:36Only Afrikaners with a clean criminal record and fluent Afrikaans are accepted.
00:43A big change coming from where you mingle with a lot of people,
00:48where there's more English people than Afrikaans and stuff.
00:52So, yeah, it's been nice being around my people, the Afrikaners.
00:57More young people are reportedly moving to the small town.
01:01Some are drawn by a new technical college, others by a sense of home.
01:07In Orania, you can just be.
01:09You can just be yourself, preserve your culture, talk your language.
01:14In other places, you should say, what language can this person speak?
01:19Why do you talk?
01:20Oh, English.
01:21I'll talk English to you.
01:22It's not that comfortable for me, but I can talk English.
01:25That person is actually a Zulu.
01:28He would preserve, he would prefer to speak his language.
01:32Orania's focus on identity appeals to some young Afrikaners
01:37in much the same way as MAGA conservatives in the United States
01:42and far-right parties in Europe.
01:45Both are also attracting a younger demographic.
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