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EFF's Tlhaole vows to 'Infiltrate' Orania [video]
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The Economic Freedom Fighters' (EFF) Northern Cape leader, Shadrack Tlhaole, has vowed to infiltrate the Afrikaner town of Orania, where he plans to take up residence.
Provincial representatives of the EFF led a march to the offices of the Northern Cape Premier, Zamani Saul, in Kimberley to hand over a memorandum for a legal review on the existence of the town, which is built on private property.
However, Orania leaders have vowed to fight back against the call to action.
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Addressing EFF members who had marched to hand over a memorandum Saul's office, the party's Tlhaole called out Orania as a 'Apartheid-era racial-enclaved operating community within a democratic South Africa'.
'Orania is not merely a town…upheld under the false narrative of cultural autonomy. It undermines the value of non-racialism, equality, and unity that is in our constitution.
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