"Vryheidsvlag" or "Freedom flag", the most common proposed flag for the Afrikaner homeland
Coat of arms
Motto: Ex Unitate Vires(Latin) ("From Unity, Strength")
Anthem: Die Stem van Suid-Afrika" (originally the anthem of South Africa from 1938–1994)[1] (English: "The Call of South Africa")
Volkstaat as proposed by the Freedom Front Plus and the Volkstaat Council
Status
Proposed
Capital
Kimberley (de jure)
Orania (de facto)
Largest city
Kimberley
Ethnic groups
Afrikaners
Religion
Dutch Reformed
Demonym(s)
Volkstaater
Government
Herrenvolk Democracy
Volkstaat / Republic
• Proposed by South African Bureau for Racial Affairs
1960s–1990s
• Establishment of Orania, Northern Cape
6 April 1991
• Accord on Afrikaner self-determination
23 April 1994
• Establishment of the Volkstaat Council
16 June 1994
• Proposed by the Volkstaat Council
31 March 1999
Population
• 2017 estimate
1,500,000 Boer/Afrikaners
Currency
South African rand (ZAR)
Today part of
South Africa
A Volkstaat (Afrikaans pronunciation:[fɔlkstɑːt], "People's State"[2]), also called a Boerestaat, is a proposed white ethnostate for Afrikaners within the borders of South Africa, most commonly proposed as a fully independent Boer/Afrikaner nation.[3][4][5] The proposed state would exclude Afrikaans-speaking Coloureds but accept South Africans of English ancestry and other White South Africans, if they accept Afrikaner culture and customs.[6]
Following the Great Trek of the 1830s and 1840s, Boer colonists established several Boer republics over the rest of the 19th century. The end of apartheid and the establishment of universal suffrage in South Africa in 1994 left some Afrikaners feeling disillusioned and marginalised by the political changes, which resulted in a proposal for an independent Volkstaat.
Several different methods have been proposed for the establishment of a Volkstaat. The geographic dispersal of minority Afrikaner communities throughout South Africa presents a significant obstacle to the establishment of a Volkstaat, because Afrikaners do not form a majority in any separate geographic area that could be sustainable independently. Supporters of the proposal have established several land cooperatives in Orania in the Northern Cape province and Kleinfontein in Gauteng as practical implementations of the idea. Initiatives in Balmoral and Morgenzon, both in Mpumalanga, failed to develop beyond their initial phase.
Map of proposed Volkstaat and neighbouring countries.
^"South Africa Will Play Two Anthems Hereafter". The New York Times. New York. 3 June 1938. p. 10. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
^Sly, Liz (7 December 1993). "Rightist Whites Trying to Plan Separate S. Africa State". Sun-Sentinel.
^Majavu, Mandisi (12 June 2022). "Orania: A white homeland in post-apartheid South Africa". Sociology Compass. 16 (7). doi:10.1111/soc4.13004. ISSN 1751-9020.
^Jackson, Rachel; Makgetla, Tumi (11 October 2013). "Redrawing the Map for Democracy". Foreign Policy.
^Constitutional Committee (1996). "Volkstaat Council (Volkstaatraad) - Self Determination and the Working Draft of the New Constitution" (PDF). Department of Justice and Constitutional Development - Republic of South Africa.
^Ramutsindela, Maano Freddy (1998). "Afrikaner Nationalism, Electioneering and the Politics of a Volkstaat". Politics. 18 (3): 179–188. doi:10.1111/1467-9256.00076. ISSN 1467-9256.
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