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Brandfort is a small agricultural town in the central Free State province of South Africa, about 60 km northeast of Bloemfontein. [1]

28 relations: Afrikaans, Bloemfontein, Boer, Botshabelo, Bultfontein, C. R. Swart, Cardiff City F.C., Dealesville, Florisbad archaeological and paleontological site, Florisbad Skull, Free State (province), Hendrik Verwoerd, Internment, Johannes Brand, Kagisho Dikgacoi, Nelson Mandela, Orange Free State, Second Boer War, Senekal, Sotho language, South Africa, Tswana language, United Kingdom, Voortrekkers, Welkom, Winburg, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Xhosa language.

Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and, to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

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Bloemfontein

Bloemfontein (Afrikaans and Dutch "fountain of flowers" or "blooming fountain"; also known as Bloem) is the capital city of the province of Free State of South Africa; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals (the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital) and is the seventh largest city in South Africa.

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Boer

Boer is the Dutch and Afrikaans noun for "farmer".

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Botshabelo

Botshabelo, meaning "a place of refuge", is a large township set up in 1979 by the then apartheid government 45 km east of Bloemfontein in the present-day Free State province of South Africa.

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Bultfontein

Bultfontein is a town in the Free State province of South Africa with a total population of about 23,400 people.

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C. R. Swart

Charles Robberts Swart, (5 December 1894 – 16 July 1982), nicknamed Blackiehttp://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/charles-robberts-blackie-swart-first-state-president-south-africa-born was a South African politician who served as the last Governor-General of Union of South Africa from 1959 to 1961 and the first State President of the Republic of South Africa from 1961 to 1967.

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Cardiff City F.C.

Cardiff City Football Club (Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Caerdydd) is a professional association football club based in the city of Cardiff, Wales, that competes in the Premier League, the top tier of the English football league system.

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Dealesville

Dealesville is a mixed farming town in the Free State province of South Africa and is surrounded by numerous salt pans.

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Florisbad archaeological and paleontological site

The Florisbad archaeological and paleontological site is a provincial heritage site in Brandfort in the Free State province of South Africa.

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Florisbad Skull

The Florisbad Skull was originally discovered by T. F. Dreyer at the Florisbad site in 1932.

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Free State (province)

The Free State (Vrystaat, Foreistata; before 1995, the Orange Free State) is a province of South Africa.

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Hendrik Verwoerd

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (8 September 1901 – 6 September 1966), also commonly referred to as H. F. Verwoerd and Dr.

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Internment

Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges, and thus no trial.

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Johannes Brand

Sir Johannes Henricus Brand, (popularly known as Jan Brand and sometimes as John Henry Brand) (6 December 1823, Cape Town – 14 July 1888, Bloemfontein) was a South African lawyer and politician, and the fourth state president of the Orange Free State, from 2 February 1864 until his death in 1888.

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Kagisho Dikgacoi

Kagisho Evidence Dikgacoi (born 24 November 1984) is a South African professional footballer who is currently without a club.

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

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Orange Free State

The Orange Free State (Oranje-Vrijstaat, Oranje-Vrystaat, abbreviated as OVS) was an independent Boer sovereign republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, which later became a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa.

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Second Boer War

The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two Boer states, the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa.

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Senekal

For people with the surname, see Senekal (surname). Senekal is a town situated on the banks of the Sand River in the eastern part of the Free State province of South Africa.

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Sotho language

Sotho (Sesotho; also known as Southern Sotho, or Southern Sesotho, Historically also Suto, or Suthu, Souto, Sisutho, Sutu, or Sesutu, according to the pronunciation of the name.) is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho-Tswana (S.30) group, spoken primarily in South Africa, where it is one of the 11 official languages, and in Lesotho, where it is the national language.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Tswana language

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Voortrekkers

The Voortrekkers (Afrikaans and Dutch for pioneers, or "pathfinders" or "fore-trekkers") were Boer pastoralists from the frontiers of the Cape Colony who migrated eastwards during the Great Trek.

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Welkom

Welkom is the second-largest city in the Free State province of South Africa, located about northeast of Bloemfontein, the provincial capital.

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Winburg

Winburg is a small mixed farming town in the Free State province of South Africa.

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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (born Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela; 26 September 1936 – 2 April 2018), also known as Winnie Mandela, was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, and the ex-wife of Nelson Mandela.

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Xhosa language

Xhosa (Xhosa: isiXhosa) is a Nguni Bantu language with click consonants ("Xhosa" begins with a click) and one of the official languages of South Africa.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandfort

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