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Carel Boshoff will remember Pres Zuma's visit to Orania today─── 14:02 Tue, 14 Sep 2010
President Jacob Zuma's visit is a "red letter day" for the Afrikaner enclave of Orania. Its founder, Carel Boshoff says he will remember this as an outstanding day. Zuma earlier arrived in the dusty Northern Cape town in an Oryx helicopter, seemingly to renew old ties with the white-haired Orania founder. He told a handful of journalists the meeting was a follow-up to various talks he had held with Orania representatives in the past. He referred to Orania as a community of "interesting ideas". Referring to Boshoff, Zuma said he had never stopped preaching his ideas and views of Orania, which had been his dream. He said the Afrikaners at Orania were prepared to live in South Africa, but wanted a place to exercise their culture. In a short memorandum Boshoff asked Zuma to help with Orania's
institutional status, which he said had not been finalised yet.
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