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Orkney, South AfricaOrkney is a gold mining town situated in the Klerksdorp district of the North West Province, South Africa, near the N12 (national road from Johannesburg to Cape Town). The town was named after Orkney Isles off the north coast of Scotland, the birthplace of Simon Fraser, one of the gold mining pioneers of the 1880s.Some of the 2010 Soccer World Cup matches will be held in Orkney's Oppenheimer stadium.
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