Okay, so this was just a little memory that I had on the way to Oranje. When I was a child, I used to go to this place with my dad to go and hunt. And it's also a hotel right next to a steam train track, where all the steam trains used to run through in those days, where people used to come and do photography. That's coming into Oranje, that's the main road. The main road splits the town into two halves. And then this is a place where we stayed over, myself, Peter and Gerda. So that's next to the Orange River. Yes, that's right. And that's my house. That was my house. General De La Rey was a poor leader, and I had very nice neighbors next to me. Do you have a picture of that one? There you go. Okay, that was Peter, myself. Peter was there on the left-hand side. I was on the right. We each had our own room. Who has pretty much There's a song. He was once head of the Union Defense Force. And while he was in the Defense Force, he was traveling with General De La Rey. Well, there's a song, a song about De La Rey as well. De La Rey, De La Rey. They sing in the pubs there as well. Okay. Sorry, but just look at the houses. It's so well equipped. We had everything that we needed. And you can drink water. You can drink water from the tap. And each of our own one suite bathrooms as well. Peter had his own shower. I didn't have a shower, unfortunately. I only had a bath. Okay, if you want to upgrade then, that will be the other bungalows. It's an upgrade from ours. And then just there's Peter, the next morning we went for a walk. So we took a photo of Peter. There's Gerda, and then myself. That's right next to the Orange River, so most of the water for the irrigation gets pulled from the Orange River. That's Gerda sitting there looking at the view in the morning. Look how clean it is, no bottles lying around, no plastics. It's really, really, really clean. And then they also got, you'll see at the bottom right there, It's a little boat where people can take rides up and down the Orange River, where they cater for the people on the... Well, not a boat, but it's a... They have catch and release, there's a spa, there's a restaurant, there's all sorts of holiday activities that you can do there. And then that's a pivotal irrigation system, so most of the lands are all in a circular system that gets pivoted on this irrigation system that they use. Just some scenes of the river there as well, the canoes on the side there. The willow trees, the weeping willows. Wow. Some beautiful old trees there next to the river. Elexa, that's the means of transport there. Most of the people, the locals, they ride these Elexas there. Imported from China? Yes. Radio Oranje, that's where Dr. Pieter had the interview this morning, that's Bart. And the interesting thing is, they say they only speak English. That's what they say. So they speak Afrikaans all the time, and the doctor knows everything that they say, and he replies in English. It was a great interview. Did we post it? That's also on Facebook, if you want to have a look. Yeah, we posted it on Facebook. And this is Henny, he was our tour guide. Gerda was taking some notes there for a book, or the article that she's going to write with her phone. It was an hour drive, but it was not enough. We couldn't, we didn't really stop to check it out. We just drove through the whole area. But he was very informative. Yeah, very. That is a map of Oranje. That's right next to the nursery. That's right next to the main road splitting the town into two halves, the south and the north. And then they got their own local money as well, the ORA. Same denominations as the RAND and it's same value. If you spend the RAND there, you get ORA as exchange. with lots of information, and look at the art, the artwork. They've got everything, and the name of the streets. Look at the name of the streets. I wrote a few down, Roubaix, Smaragde, obviously everything is in Afrikaans. And if you zoom into the notice board, you will see there, no crime. Okay, another Ilexa guy smoking a cigarette while he's driving there. Another Ilexa with seats in it for tourists. Look at the artwork there. There are some other pictures as well. And then their flag, that is the small giants on there, stands for prosperity. And then most of the laborers there is white guys. You don't see any black people working. These are two guys working in the road. This is the new university that they're busy building. They've got their own solar plants as well, that supplies 50% of the power there. And their sewage works as well, is all done by themselves. The water purifying system as well. But you can see how neat it is and how clean it is. There's no litter or anything lying around anywhere. This is the company that makes the frames. Most of their housing is built with corrugated sheeting, so they use this as a frame for the inner frame and then it gets cladded. So this is the company that supplies it. That's a typical house. It's half the cost of a brick house. And then that is the gym, the local gym, Gemsbok. This house is still busy in development. Spocked his caravan underneath there for a bit of shade. All sorts of styles across the town. This is quite interesting. They're using the drainage for the water from the roof. They use the chain coming down. It's quite interesting. Never seen that before. And then most of the houses on the roofs has got the solar-powered geysers. That's a typical road in Oranje. The Alexa, now that, if you look at that pipe at the back there that runs for 13 kilometers through the town, that's still from the original waterworks, and that's still in use today. They bought the town from the waterworks. There are still some cement roads as well that's from that era. There's no police there, so they got their own security company. Then this is their building. The tower at the top, it looks like an airport control tower that can see 360 all the way. The whole town is visible from there. This is almost on like a hill where the whole town is visible from that point. Just another angle of it. This is an old age home. Oh, and while we were there, the Weizsach crisis was a week for the elderly. So they spoiled them, and they really look after the elderly. This is just some of the artwork on the street outside the ladies' res at the Technikon. That's the guys, that's their side where they live. And then this was a fundraiser walk that they had in the town where they were walking the whole day, 24 hours through the night, the youth of the town. Some of the kids on the streets. They were playing everywhere. Useful, this is the local guy that makes the bull tongue that supplies the meat there. You can see what it is So this is a very interesting house. It's made of, in Afrikaans, it's called webala. Webala in English is called clay base, ale bells. So it is painted, but it's made of webala. There are two plates. This is a shop, no. The other one is a house. This is a restaurant. The other one was a house. That's a tuk-tuk. The local tuk-tuk. This is the little quaint street with all the trees. It's only green developed streets in Rwanda. It's probably the oldest street there. But look how clean it is, eh? It's very obvious. Gunster art. This was in the same road, and then the school crossing. And then on most of the fencing, you see this, the plant is for just to decorate the town a little bit. They've got all these plants for flowers everywhere. Oh, that's a kooksister. You asked about the picture we had. Lovely kooksisters. Oh, Saturday we had kooksisters, we had kooksisters Sunday. So that's a kooksister monument, and that is, you know the story about the food truckers and their kooksisters. That's how they built the churches and the schools, and they still do that, and put their children through universities by selling kooksisters. And then just behind it is the Olympic swimming pool for the town. It's a local pool that everybody goes and swims. You don't see that often in towns anymore. Yeah, but notice the roses as well. So right through the town, there was roses, all colors, white, red. The main thing they do there is pecan nuts. So these are the pecan nut trees in the background there. that they export to China apparently. You can see some of the pecanuts in the trees. Another example of the corrugated sheet housing. The Baldur's Bucky, local. And then this is the riding school, the horse riding school there. They want to change the name to Afrikaans. The locals aren't happy with the English name. This is from the old waterworks that they changed into a monument as well. It's quite nifty. So they didn't break it down, they kept it. This is Sarel's house that Peter had a meeting with. So that's our table. It was quite busy straight through Saturday, Sunday. You will see now, go to the next one, you will see the people. They were very interested. They knew about Dr. Emmet and his books. So there was two nights where Peter gave a speech. This is the first night, and some of the pictures will show the second night. This is a little hill just behind the church where they've got busts of all the well-known figures inside African history. This is the little giant. He stands in front of all the other busts in the background. There you can see all of it arranged together. And then that's on Kruger. You can see the church in the background there. There's the flag of the small giant, and that's for Wurt. And there's the new bust, the new edition, Peter. That's the next mayor of Oranje. Just some of the flowers there. There's a little gift shop selling mugs. And then this is a server. This picture is for you. And chocolate as well they make there. Very interesting. And then you'll see the graphic on the chocolate. That's the bitrapis. It's also another site that you can go and see in Oranje. That is for the fur tracker woman. We were prepared to walk barefoot. They all do recycling there as well. You can see all the various bins. That is a local hardware. And there's the new mayor of the town. Coffee shop, very nice coffee shop. That's Gerda on the... Calfoot, Calfoot, look. Because it was the woman who walked Calfoot. And then the petrol jockey, that's a white guy that you don't often see in South Africa. And you can see they don't accept any cheques, only cash. That's it, thank you very much. Yeah, they have a preschool, they have a primary school, they have a high school, they have a Technicon, they are busy with the university. I think we've mentioned, they've got a hospital, name it and they have it. Lots of small shops, library. We were treated well, they were very friendly. All in all, it was a great weekend. But we have to go back because it was too short. Any questions? How many people are there? In 1998, it was 500 people. It went up to 2,000, and far up to 2,000 people. It's standing currently over 4,000. And still growing. They have a 10% growth per year over the last few years. Just look at it. It's mountainous. But you can see there's lots of building projects going on, lots of new houses and restoration. But very clean, very orderly. Petty crimes, but they don't have a chuki. They haven't had a murder in, what, 31 years, eh? 32 years. What is the growth based on? Is it not only families growing, but it's new people coming in? New people coming in, yeah. But you have to apply, obviously, and then you go through the committee and whatnot. Also, something interesting, most of the things that they export, it goes to China for some reason. I read that on the internet. Very interesting. What kind of governing body is that? Yes, you mentioned the mayor, but there must be some kind of... Municipality. They're a municipality on its own. They're totally, totally independent. Is that the governing body? Yeah. So that's a municipality. And obviously the church play a huge role there. Apparently most of the council are Kerefemede. So when the Afrikaans-Persian conflict hits the biggest and most popular congregation in town, the Kerefemede somehow dominate the council. So when it comes to town, the Kerefemede people are the ones in the leadership. So Afrikaans people are popular on the ground, but the leadership is not in their hands. But it's very tranquil. You see children playing in the streets all the time, riding bicycles and just having fun. Even at night time. Even at night time. It's amazing. It reminds me of Bethlehem when I was a child. I mean, it's the same atmosphere for me. Any more questions? What was your favorite part? The food, oh and the steak, we had steak and you had chicken, well everything was great. It's considered to be a vegetable. Everything was nice, walking in the morning to the river was also nice, just sitting there and taking each Everything in was very nice. People are very friendly. Everywhere they would greet you, hi, and they obviously know that we are visitors, so they will come and they will talk to you. Are they happy there? Oh, it seems like it, yeah. Especially the children. Especially the children. I always look at the children because you can see the truth there. And they seem very happy. And your idea, how did you feel about the whole trip? Oh. In one sense, I think it's a trip down memory lane in the way things used to be. Yeah. Exactly. I hope it's a visual feature. I wrote, at first glance the town looks peaceful, well kept and orderly. Afrikaners live here and I'm told they do not believe in demolition but building up. That's what they said. Crime, murder and theft are against the law there. So the heading of my article is, my visit to Oranje made me proud again to be called an Afrikaner. Because for a very long time, I was not very proud to be called an Afrikaner. But it reminded me on what Afrikaner really is all about. For me, that's personal. Like I said, they have a spa, a restaurant. You can do fishing. You can do all sorts of things that you can do at other holiday places. Yes, there's an Olympic-sized swimming pool for the community to use. And it's very clean. I saw it yesterday. And the people there also, some of them have their own. Like in Germany. Yes. How many people? You said 500. It's just over 4,000 now. 4,000. It started with 500, but it's now almost 4,000. How can they support the tech, and then they're building a university as well? Are they trying to promote the next generation, you know, to build up the town? Yeah, from outside the town as well. Yes. You know, if you've got 4,000 people, that means you're probably going to have about 50 students or something like that. Oh, that'll probably, you know, start small. Yeah. But I'm thinking you'll probably get outsiders coming to study Okay, that's that.