English
Oviston
Sign in to saveOviston is a settlement in Walter Sisulu Local Municipality in Joe Gqabi District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Gariep Local Municipality
- Shares border with
- Springfontein
- Image
- Oviston Orange Fish Tunnel Siloam Village Gariep Karoo.jpg
- Dialing code
- 051
Show 2 more facts
- inception
- 1965-01-01
- postal code
- 9798
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- See also
- References
Oviston is a settlement in Walter Sisulu Local Municipality in Joe Gqabi District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Township 8 km north of Venterstad, on the southern bank of the Gariep Dam. It was established in 1964-65 to accommodate workers on the Orange-Fish River Tunnel. The name is derived from the Afrikaans Oranje-Vis-tonnel, ‘Orange-Fish Tunnel’, near the entrance to which it is situated.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oviston” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations
Available in 9 languages
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0