Afrikaner Volkstaat

The Afrikaner Volkstaat (commonly just Volkstaat, which is Afrikaans for "People's State") is a small representative democracy on the Western coast of Southern Africa. The end of minority apartheid rule in South Africa in 1994 left some Afrikaners disillusioned and marginalized by the political changes, and resulted in a proposal for an autonomous nation for the Afrikaners in 1995. In 2012, after much controversy, the Volkstaat claimed independence from the rest of South Africa. The capital of the Afrikaner Volkstaat is located in Vredendal, and the entire country is an enclave of the Republic of South Africa.