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1.3 1.6 4.6 5.8 7.5 54.5 Average relative humidity (%) 55 62 64 66 62 62 57 50 46 50 52 52 57 Mean ... J. R. R. Tolkien CBE was born in Bloemfontein on 3 January 1892.
Mangaung is a Sesotho word meaning "place of cheetahs", as it was not uncommon for the Basotho to name warrior regiments after ferocious animals. Before the municipal elections of 18 May 2011, Mangaung was a local municipality within the Motheo District Municipality. [4] In the municipal elections held on 1 November 2021, the African National ...
The Central University of Technology, Free State (CUT) is a public technology university with campuses in Bloemfontein and Welkom, Free State province, South Africa. It was established in 1981 as " Technikon Free State." As part of the South African government's restructuring of tertiary education for the new millennium it was promoted to ...
3.2 Letsemeng Local Municipality: FS161 Xhariep Koffiefontein: 9,828 40,044 4.1 Mafube Local Municipality: FS205 Fezile Dabi Frankfort: 3,971 57,574 14.5 Maluti-a-Phofung Local Municipality: FS194 Thabo Mofutsanyana Phuthaditjhaba: 4,338 353,452 81.5 Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality: MAN Bloemfontein: 9,886 787,803 79.7 Mantsopa Local ...
The Free State Stadium (Afrikaans: Vrystaatstadion), currently known as the Toyota Stadium for sponsorship reasons and formerly known as Vodacom Park, is a stadium in Bloemfontein in the Free State of South Africa, used mainly for rugby union and also sometimes for association football. It was originally built for the 1995 Rugby World Cup, and ...
Orange River Colony. The Orange River Colony was the British colony created after Britain first occupied (1900) and then annexed (1902) the independent Orange Free State in the Second Boer War. The colony ceased to exist in 1910, when it was absorbed into the Union of South Africa as the Orange Free State Province. [2]
Orange Free State Command. Bloemfontein, South Africa. Type. Command (military formation) Site history. Events. 1933–1999. Orange Free State Command was a command of the South African Army, active from c. 1933 to c. 1999. Its headquarters was at Bloemfontein, seemingly for a period at the Tempe airfield, later to become the Tempe Military Base .
Bram Fischer International Airport (IATA: BFN, ICAO: FABL) (Afrikaans: Bram Fischer Internasionale Lughawe) is a primary airport located in Bloemfontein, the capital city of the Free State province of South Africa. The runways are shared with AFB Bloemspruit. In November 2012, the South African government announced that the airport's name was ...