Vereniging van Oranjewerkers
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Vereniging van Oranjewerkers (Organisation of Orange Workers, sometimes shortened to simply Oranjewerkers) was a South African far right political movement that sought full racial segregation.
Formed in 1980 by Wally Grant, H. F. Verwoerd junior (the son of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd), Carel Boshoff and C. J. Joost, the group bemoaned the over-relaince of South Africa on a black workforce and sought to set up Oranjegroeipunte (Orange growth points) where the group would buy up land to settle unemployed white people on. Such a scheme was set up in Morgenzon.[1] Alongside this they also developed the plan of bolwerke ('bastions'), or privately owned farms that whose landowners would undertake to stop utilising black labour.[2]
Eschewing the party political route, the Oranjewerkers became more of a research group, undertaking a series of studies of the demographics of the country. Leading member Hercules Booysen termed their mission as dinamiese-konsewatisme, seeking newer solutions to the old ideas of apartheid and the creation of a Volkstaat.[3] Similar plans for redesigning the map of South Africa have been suggested by the group from time to time.
[edit] References
- ^ Brian M. du Toit, 'The Far Right in South Africa', The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 29, No. 4. (Dec., 1991), p. 647
- ^ du Toit, op cit
- ^ du Toit, op cit, p. 648
