I see the community of Orania somewhat differently. It's a cultural establishment that realized the need to preserve the culture. The entire bloodline is one of assessing the far horizon, and planning accordingly, with constant evaluation and adjustment. If there is one thing an Afrikaner can do, it's plan ahead, and work his fingers to the bone to get there.
Sure, there are lots of ridicule going around, many inaccurate assessments and loads of profiling. Orania is not some kind of utopia or perfect enclave for the stereotype. But the Afrikaner has always been the tortoise in the race. Slow and deliberate in all actions, but always forging ahead, always progressing.
It grinds the gears of many of the detractors that they are indeed making strides. An island of independent progress, against the odds, against the current, despite the repression and demonization of the entire culture. Independent sewage and electricity infrastructure, independent labor, a functioning local economy, regional growth, agricultural bloom. Are there problems? Of course, as with any and all communities. And let the jokes and insults fly. The Afrikaners don't mind, they have thick skins, a blessing at birth.
Many are watching, and I suspect the ridcule will die down, and then suddenly turn into cries of exasperation at those who want to "share" in the "resources", that will actually just be a disguised call for extermination of the cultural project that would have succeeded. Lesufi is at the forefront of that, but I expect ,more to slowly start joining in. If this was a Zulu, Xhosa, Venda project - pick your tribe - it would be exemplified as a model of excellence, along with their subsidized royal households, homelands and tracts of land, representation in parliament, etc. But Afrikaners will ultimately not be allowed this.
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