Testing the 'black-friendly' image of Orania: Siv Ngesi and Josh Rubin explore South Africa's 'whites-only town'

The Karoo has seen so much, but changed so little

It’s an incongruous name for a wilderness, “the Karoo.” The nursery-like sound belies the harshness of a vast, arid hinterland separating South Africa’s littoral from its grassland interior. For South Africans, the name is synonymous with bone-dry air, scented heathers, great rock formations, vast skies and even vaster sunsets. The scrubland here is so inhospitable that for centuries it insulated the southern tip of Africa from the rest of the c…

Testing the 'black-friendly' image of Orania: Siv Ngesi and Josh Rubin explore South Africa's 'whites-only town'

Testing The Blackfriendly Image Of Orania Siv Ngesi And Josh Rubin Explore South Africas Whitesonly Town : The Africa

For many South Africans, Orania, situated on the banks of the Orange River and within the Karoo region, exists only as the subject of whispered conversations, painted vividly in shades of suspicion an