🇺🇸🔶 New York Young Republican Club on X: "Our members gathered for an exclusive Wine Wednesday with a visiting delegation from Orania, South Africa — a self-sustaining Afrikaner community standing firm in its pursuit of self-determination

Guests heard directly from Joost Strydom, Executive Head of the Orania Movement, and Ernst Roets, alongside other senior leaders. In a sobering conversation, they outlined the escalating crisis in South Africa, and how Orania offers a powerful model of cultural preservation, resilience, and independence in the face of state failure."

📝 Joost: Made loyal friends at NYYRC! What a privilege to be hosted and speak here!

🔗 NYYRC

🟧🇧🇬 Joost Strydom on X:

"GOOD NEWS! Orania delegation to Bulgaria is well received.

We were invited to explain the Orania model in Bulgaria. I had to do a lecture of both two hours, because every sentence had to be translated.

Directly after the presentation I also received invitations for two TV interviews, a good opportunity to present Orania's case.

The language gap is big, but my big thanks to Георги Драганов [Georgi Draganov] who not only translated thoroughly, but is so well-read about Orania that he was often able to help explain context! It was a great privilege to have you as a guide.

More than 100 years ago, Bulgarians came to help the Boers as volunteers. They were enthusiastic about our ideal of freedom. Unfortunately, in the 80s we met on different sides of the border war, because they were trapped under the yoke of communism.

They were able to shake it off by expelling communism from their country, and since then their economy has grown by 700%!

Now we meet again, and it is clearly a positive encounter. So different, yet with so much in common. The same challenges, perhaps the same solutions?

Thank you very much for the incredibly hospitable reception!"

📎 Joost Strydom