White South African separatist Boshoff dies

Carel Boshoff, who founded modern South Africa's sole whites-only town Orania, died on Wednesday at the age of 83, the town said on its website. "After a full and rich life, Carel Boshoff passed on today at noon," his Orania Movement said on its website.
Orania official Jaco Kleynhans said Boshoff had been seriously ill during the past year from cancer and his health deteriorated drastically last month. Boshoff was son-in-law of the architect of apartheid, the late prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd. As apartheid was crumbling, Boshoff in 1990 founded Orania, a small town in the sparsely populated Northern Cape province. He hoped it would become an independent homeland for Afrikaners, descendants of the first European settlers. Boshoff and his wife Anna had six children. He will be buried on Saturday.