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Massmart was founded in 1990, beginning with the acquisition of six Makro stores. [9] It listed on the JSE Limited on 4 July 2000 at R12.50 per share. Since its founding, Massmart has grown both organically and by acquisition. The firm acquisition history includes: 378 Shield members in March 1992; 20 Dion stores in May 1993; 14 CCW stores in ...
Makro had also expanded to the United States in the mid-1980s. In 1989, Kmart bought the US locations, [2] and converted most of them to Pace Warehouse in 1990. Makro expanded to Asia with its first store in Thailand in 1989. Operating as Siam Makro, the company is a joint venture between Charoen Pokphand and SHV Holdings. In 1994, Siam Makro ...
Bloemfontein's national and regional roads are as follows: The N1, a major highway running roughly SW to NE from Cape Town to Johannesburg and Zimbabwe largely bypasses this city to the west. The N8 runs east/west connecting Bloemfontein to Kimberley and Maseru, the capital of Lesotho.
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The university's Bloemfontein Campus is near the city centre. The university also has three campuses. Two are situated in Bloemfontein, referred to as the Bloemfontein Campus and the South Campus, and the other in the former homeland QwaQwa that was, until 2003, part of the University of the North.
A small group of 11 Voortrekker settlers, led by Andries Hendrik Potgieter, first arrived in the area of Winburg in 1835.. They were able to buy access to the land between the Vaal and Vet rivers – virtually the entire northern part of what is now the Free State – from the local Bataung Chief, Makwana, in 1836, by promising protection from rival tribes and offering 42 head of cattle.
The macroblock is a processing unit in image and video compression formats based on linear block transforms, typically the discrete cosine transform (DCT). A macroblock typically consists of 16×16 samples, and is further subdivided into transform blocks, and may be further subdivided into prediction blocks.
Botshabelo is served by several commuter bus lines traveling local and long distances on a daily basis. The township is located on the main railway line between Bloemfontein and Maseru, as well as on the N8, the main road between the two towns. The township still has unnamed streets, but the development of upgrading and naming of streets and ...