When Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first black president of South Africa on May 10, 1994, the world watched with awe as the brutal system of racial segregation known as apartheid seemed to finally crumble.
But if you were to walk 20 minutes east of South Africa's capital Pretoria, past a high fence, you'll find a secluded, 8.6km² community where every one of its 1500 residents is white.
Founded in 1990, the secretive enclave of Kleinfontein is manned by white security guards and presents itself as a counter-model to the challenges facing the democratic South Africa, plagued by notoriously high crime rates.
Residents of Kleinfontein are strictly Afrikaner - an ethnic group descended from the Boers ('farmers'), the predominantly Dutch settlers - but also French and Germans - who immigrated to the Cape of Good Hope in 1652, before the advent of British rule in 1806.
The community argues that as Afrikaners, they are an oppressed and endangered minority in a country where the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party gives preferential treatment to the black population.
