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Shortly thereafter, de Wet was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Free State forces. [16] They could not contain the British advance towards the Free State capital, Bloemfontein, which was taken unopposed on 13 March 1900. [17] His next successful action was the surprise attack on Sanna's Post near Bloemfontein on 31 March 1900.
Roodepoort (locally / ˈ r ʊər d ə p ʊər t / ROOR-də-poort) [2] is a city in the Gauteng province of South Africa. Formerly an independent municipality , Roodepoort became part of the Johannesburg municipality in the late 1990s, along with Randburg and Sandton .
Randfontein is a gold mining town in the West Rand, Gauteng, South Africa, 40 km (25 mi) west of Johannesburg.With the Witwatersrand gold rush in full swing, mining financier JB Robinson bought the farm Randfontein and, in 1889, floated the Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company.
Krugersdorp is the site of a December 1880 gathering at which more than 6,000 men vowed to fight for the Transvaal's independence. [2] Founded in 1887 by Marthinus Pretorius after the discovery of gold on his farm, Paardekraal , thereafter the mining industry played an important role in the development of the city.
On 8 May 2000, at 3:24 am, police inspector Kriel claimed to have observed an approaching UFO while traveling on the N3 freeway, 70 km north of Warden in the eastern Free State province. According to Kriel, the orange, oval-shaped light was fitted with two cupolas, one above and another below, and was wide enough to cover four lanes of the freeway.
Frankfort is a small farming town situated on the banks of the Wilge River in the Free State province of South Africa. The town was laid out in 1869 on the farm Roodepoort, and named Frankfurt (after Frankfurt-am-Main in Germany) by Albert van Gordon. [3] The town later received municipality status in 1896. [4]
Roodeplaat Dam is a concrete arch dam situated in South Africa on the Pienaars River (also known along parts of its length as the Moretele River and Moreleta Spruit [1]), a tributary of the Crocodile River, which flows northwards into the Limpopo River.
UTC+2 : Postal code (street) 1829. PO box: 1821. Vlakfontein is a small settlement in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. During the Second Boer War it was the ...