Why are more communities seeking to become Independent from the state? Traditional royal families visited the Afrikaner-only town of Orania on a fact-finding mission to learn more about Orania's model of self-determination and self-sufficiency. Orania - Situated in the Northern Cape and established in 1991 to preserve the Afrikaner culture and its material Interests, has an independent and unique municipal system, which manages its own municipal affairs, Independent from the state. For more on this, Elvis Presslin spoke to Jooste Strydom, Head of the Orania Movement