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On June 21, 2017, vandals set the building on fire. The fire was lit during a protest by the South African Municipal Workers' Union held at the building earlier in the day. The municipal archives in the building were lost in the fire. [1] Following a restoration project, Bloemfontein City Hall was reopened in 2021. [2]
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 Municipality: FS196 Thabo Mofutsanyana Ladybrand: 4,291 53,525 12.5 Masilonyana Local ...
The Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality (Sotho: Masepala o Moholo wa Mangaung; Zulu: UMasipala weDolobhakazi laseMangawunge; Afrikaans: Mangaung Metropolitaanse Munisipaliteit; Tswana: Mmasepala wa Toropokgolo ya Mangaung; Xhosa: uMasipala oMbaxa wase Mangaung) is a metropolitan municipality which governs Bloemfontein and surrounding towns in the Free State province of South Africa.
The Bloemfontein municipality channelled off all black urbanisation to Thaba Nchu and Botshabelo, which were developed as a source of cheap labour for the city of Bloemfontein. A subsidised bus service was established, and Botshabelo was declared a decentralisation point, meaning it was designated to become an industrial development point to ...
Zulu is the major language in the far eastern municipality of Phumelela. Setswana is the main language in Tokologo in the northwest, and in and around the area of Thaba Nchu . Afrikaans is widely spoken throughout the province, as a first language for the majority of whites and coloureds (who constitute a minority) and as a second or third ...
The district was divided into three local municipalities: Mangaung, Mantsopa, and Naledi.. Of these, Mangaung Local Municipality — now Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality — is the most densely populated; it features the greatest concentration of well-developed infrastructure and services in the Bloemfontein area, which offers a wide range of amenities to the surrounding rural communities.
It was laid out in 1891 on the farm Middelwater and attained municipal status in 1902. Named after the owners of the farm, Jan and Bastiaan Tromp. [ 3 ] : 352 It was at first called Jagersfontein Road, then Hamilton, in honour of Sir Hamilton John Goold-Adams (1858–1920), Lieutenant-Governor of the Orange River Colony from 1901 to 1910.
Municipality: Mangaung: Main Place: Bloemfontein: Area [1] • Total. 3.26 km 2 (1.26 sq mi) ... Bayswater is a suburb of the city of Bloemfontein in South Africa.