{"id":917798,"date":"2022-01-19T22:21:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T22:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/19\/the-whites-only-town-in-south-africa-is-looking-for-skilled-people-to-boost-its-economy\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T22:21:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T22:21:52","slug":"the-whites-only-town-in-south-africa-is-looking-for-skilled-people-to-boost-its-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/19\/the-whites-only-town-in-south-africa-is-looking-for-skilled-people-to-boost-its-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"The whites Only Town in South Africa is looking for skilled people to boost its economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The Afrikaner town of Orania has called for \u201cyoung and skilled workers\u201d to help improve the town and ensure its sustainability. The CEO of Orania Joost Strydom said the town needed improvement to keep up with the rest of South Africa and is calling upon white, skilled, Afrikaners to join the town and grow the economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/f0b3465a9cad4accb137b8bb89aaacad\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">The population is growing here, as more jobs and homes continue to spring up in Orania. However, the CEO of the town isn\u2019t ready to rest on any laurels just yet. Joost Strydom said that one of the advantages of working for Orania is that the town has zero crime rate, 100% service rate, and all workers are paid on time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/91b31e109afc4a3da9676d50aeef1f65\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">He said young Afrikaners were needed for various jobs such as plumbing, engineering, and work in the arts to accelerate Orania\u2019s growth. These skilled workers will be helping to provide services to nearly 2000 people and will be paid in the currency called Ora.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/960efe0c4cdd404a85b21ba06357be08\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">The town started in 1963 to preserve Afrikaaner culture as a cultural project, the town in the Karoo region of the Northern Cape has proved to be resilient against steady attacks particularly from EFF and ANC who are constantly calling for the project to be closed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/75c12514fb3a43b5b0fabbb17cc6d4c7\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Sources:\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/2022-01-18-young-an-afrikaner-and-skilled-orania-needs-you-to-help-ensure-its-sustainability<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: MBCNetwork (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAfrikaners<br \/>\nJoost Strydom<br \/>\nOnly Town<br \/>\nOrania<br \/>\nSouth Africa<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Afrikaner town of Orania has called for \u201cyoung and skilled workers\u201d to help improve the town and ensure its sustainability. The CEO of Orania Joost Strydom said the town needed improvement to keep up with the rest of South Africa and is calling upon white, skilled, Afrikaners to join the town and grow the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}