{"id":3292,"date":"2012-11-14T12:31:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T12:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2012-11-14T12:31:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T12:31:21","slug":"afrikaner-enclave-of-kleinfontein-investigated-by-anc-provincial-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3292","title":{"rendered":"Afrikaner enclave of Kleinfontein investigated by ANC provincial officials"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kleinfontein, east of Pretoria, from the air<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Business Day reports that tHE Gauteng legislature\u2019s portfolio committee for community safety on Tuesday announced that it had launched an inquiry into the whites-only Afrikaner “cultural village” of Kleinfontein following police complaints about a lack of access to the estate.<\/p>\n

Kleinfontein, 30km southeast of Pretoria, is a 500-hectare Afrikaner settlement similar to Orania, the Afrikaner enclave in the Karoo in the Northern Cape. Its mission is to preserve the culture, language and religion of the Afrikaner people without being threatened or harassed.<\/p>\n

But that ideal may be tested on Friday when the portfolio committee will meet residents at the Kleinfontein community hall.<\/p>\n

The chairman of the Kleinfontein board of directors, Jan Groenewald, said they welcomed the two-day engagement which would address their concerns about policing.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Tuesday, the portfolio committee said it was concerned about complaints it had received from the local Boschkop police station.<\/p>\n

The police had apparently found it difficult to get into the village to perform their duties.<\/p>\n

“The purpose of the inquiry is to investigate challenges experienced by the community of Kleinfontein in integrating with the rest of the local community and co-operation of the community with law enforcement agencies in combating crime and ensuring safety,” said committee spokesman Takalani Ndou.<\/p>\n

Mr Ndou said the committee would also investigate the activities of a private security company working in the community and its role in law enforcement and community safety.<\/p>\n

Access to social services would also be discussed, he said.<\/p>\n

The committee has invited the MEC for community safety, Faith Mazibuko, the station commander of the Boschkop police station, Col Schoombe Reinsburg, and Brigadier Welcome Kweyama to give evidence.<\/p>\n

Mr Groenewald has also been invited to attend.<\/p>\n

Members of the Kleinfontein community will have the opportunity to make oral presentations during the inquiry.<\/p>\n

Mr Groenewald said that besides the access control at the entrance, the community did not make use of private security guards and the police were welcome to access the village.<\/p>\n

“The engagement has been very civil with the portfolio committee. The meeting will be an opportunity for us to be transparent,” he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Groenewald said that as a cultural village, the group\u2019s right to territorial independence was protected in the constitution.<\/p>\n

According to the Kleinfontein website (kleinfontein.net), the enclave provides retirement accommodation, sport and cultural facilities as well as a nature reserve. It has its own bank, school and a rugby team, which managed to beat its Orania counterparts earlier this year.<\/p>\n

It was established in 1992, when a group of Afrikaners realised that power would eventually be handed over to the black majority and that “no consideration was given to the future existence of the Afrikaner people”. Today up to 900 people are economically active in the town and it boasts 650 residents and 400 shareholders.<\/p>\n

Mr. Jaco Mulder, the only provincial councillor from an explicitly Afrikaner party, the Freedom Front Plus, will be in attendance on Friday in an attempt to protect the community from political harassment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Business Day reports that tHE Gauteng legislature\u2019s portfolio committee for community safety on Tuesday announced that it had launched an inquiry into the whites-only Afrikaner “cultural village” of Kleinfontein following police complaints about a lack of access to the estate. Kleinfontein, 30km southeast of Pretoria, is a 500-hectare Afrikaner settlement similar to Orania, the Afrikaner … Continue reading “Afrikaner enclave of Kleinfontein investigated by ANC provincial officials”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[236,64,350,2156,2157],"class_list":["post-3292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-afrikaner","tag-anc","tag-gauteng","tag-kleinfontein","tag-orania"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kleinfontein_nedersettinglugfoto.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3295,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions\/3295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}