Orkney is a gold mining town situated in the Klerksdorp district of the North West province, South Africa.

The town was named after the Orkney Isles off the north coast of Scotland, the birthplace of Simon Fraser, one of the gold mining pioneers of the 1880s.

The rule was broken as Afrikaner nationalism grew dominant in the 1960s, and some of the British literary names were replaced.

The town was near the epicentre of an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 on the Richter scale which struck on 5 August 2014, killing one person.

In this the pun is on the "ook nie" ("also not" or "neither") sounding like "Orkney"; and the full meaning being "neither town nor farm".