On the face of it, there is little to say about the Northern Cape town of Orania, aside from the fact that it is an Afrikaner-majority town, founded in 1990, of 1 500 people located along the Orange River.

That is, until it comes to money. Orania already has its own chamber of commerce, its own bank and even its own currency – the Ora. Now the town is planning on going one step further, by launching its own digital currency, the ‘e-Ora’.