As the political negotiations for a new dispensation took shape in 1993, the Interim Constitution was adopted. One of the main decisions taken was that post-apartheid South Africa would be a unitary state, not a federal state.
The same view was sustained in the final Constitution, which was adopted in 1996.
However, while this decision was binding, something strange was allowed to happen – all in the name of recon- ciliation.
Following the demise of apartheid in 1994, Carel Boshoff IV founded Orania in the Northern Cape. This place elected
