 The following year he was involved in the setting up of the "Vereniging Bybel en Volk", an opposition group within the Reformed Churches in South Africa established after the church leadership endorsed a motion of condemnation of apartheid passed by the Reformed Ecumenical Synod.In 1988 he founded AVSTIG or "Afrikaner Vryheidstigting", although he is mainly known as the founder in 1990 of Orania, an Afrikaner settlement intended as the beginning of a volkstaat.Boshoff admitted his disappointment that it Orania had only 810 residents rather than the 60,000 he had anticipated.