South Africans have a slightly morbid fascination with the town of Orania.

After all, the town has its own currency and ways of doing business, and stories involving gawking from a distance at this oddity pop up from time to time.

It’s clear that the central ideas of Orania are shared by many, and we have already seen a copycat called ‘Die Eden Projek’ talked about in the Eastern Cape.

Now we’re heading to the aptly-named Eureka in the Northern Cape – as in ‘Eureka, people, it’s not 1925’.

IOL reporting below on the guy who wants to help South Africans “fight against the uprooting of the white race”:

The settlement, named “Eureka”, is situated outside Garies in the Northern Cape. Its founder, Adriaan Alettus Nieuwoudt, describes himself as the official co-ordinator of the Eureka Movement of South Africa.

Eureka is described as a “security town” where people can “securely retire, live and work with their own schools, shops and medical services in their own mother language (Afrikaans) and rural culture”.

According to Nieuwoudt, he bought the piece of land (now known as Eureka) “with his own money, during 2016”. He promised on Tuesday to donate a 1 000 square metre plot in Eureka to “each member of the uprooted white race who registered with the Eureka movement”.

“This plot will stay reserved in your name till the end of days. Whether you use it or not, it remains your own place in the land of your birth and is transferable to your heirs. When you start building on the plot, you have to carry building costs, but until then we cost each other nothing,” a statement by Nieuwoudt reads.

“Eureka is a serious attempt to re-establish our white people in safety. Here we empower the entire white race to independently, for yourself, with our own means, in our own fatherland, build a future. We have already waited too long. No one may prevent us from doing so. In this way we can again let the white race, without bloodshed, acquire a piece of their birth land.”

I guess this is where the Suidlanders will end up when the great genocide begins.

Guys, please take Steve Hofmeyr with you.

Nieuwoudt says that there has been a great amount of support for his “movement”, with 5 000 “registered members” as of yesterday.

The Facebook group he runs, Garies eerste EUREKA! veiligheid dorp, had more than 10 000 members at the time of writing.

Nieuwoudt is certainly very active on Facebook, posting this to his profile yesterday:

Some are finding it a little hard to trust Nieuwoudt, though, because he has a rather colourful backstory:

Paula Stephanie Rocher Marais stated that “it sounds like a sour milk scheme”, apparently referring to Nieuwoudt, who is also the man behind Kubus, the notorious rotten milk pyramid scheme that took South Africa by storm in the early 1980s.

Back in the 1980s, Nieuwoudt raised millions of rand through his “milk culture” project and thousands of South Africans fell for it, furiously buying the mixture of cheese and milk culture from Nieuwoudt, “growing” it in glasses and then drying it into a powder to re-sell to Nieuwoudt and recruiting others to do the same, in a classic pyramid scheme.

At the time, Nieuwoudt claimed that he needed vast quantities of the dried powder to develop a skin cream product. However, there never was such a product and investigators found that the milk culture was simply a cover for a pyramid scheme. Tons of dried milk culture was found rotting in a shed.

He was sequestrated for running that pyramid scheme, and was also found guilty on charges of diamond theft and illegal dealing back in the 1990s.

He served just one year of his eight-year sentence, before being released.

Yup, sounds like the kind of guy I want running my new settlement.

[source:iol]