Radio Orania is a South African community

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radi ...

based in the Northern Cape. The coverage area is

Orania Orania () is an Afrikaner separatist town founded by Afrikaners in South Africa. It is located along the Orange River in the Karoo region of the Northern Cape province. The town is split in two halves by the R369 road, and is from Cape Tow ...

, a town in the Northern Cape, although some reception is possible as far as

Hopetown Hopetown is a town which lies at the edge of the Great Karoo in South Africa's Northern Cape province. It is situated on an arid slope leading down to the Orange River. The first diamond discovered in South Africa, the Eureka Diamond, was fo ...

. Programmes are broadcast in

Afrikaans Afrikaans (, ) is a West Germanic language that evolved in the Dutch Cape Colony from the Dutch vernacular of Holland proper (i.e., the Hollandic dialect) used by Dutch, French, and German settlers and their enslaved people. Afrikaans gra ...

language, from 5 am to 4 pm and 5 to 10 pm. The Orania community is the target audience. Programme format includes about 40% music and 60% talk. The radio station was launched on 12 April 2008, after its predecessor Radio 100 had been shut down by

ICASA The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) is an independent regulatory body of the South African government, established in 2000 by the ICASA Act to regulate both the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors in the publ ...

. The station is manned by volunteers only, counting over 50 contributors. Programmes include readings of Afrikaans literature such as Mikro's ''Die ruiter in die nag''. A 13-year-old student at Orania's ''Volkskool'' made local news in 2009, when his radio play about

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was broadcast by the station.

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* /www.saarf.co.za SAARF Website* /www.sentech.co.za Sentech Website Afrikaans-language radio stations Community radio stations in South Africa Orania, Northern Cape Radio stations established in 2008 Mass media in the Northern Cape {{SouthAfrica-radio-station-stub