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Bloemfontein is located in central South Africa on the southern edge of the Highveld at an elevation of 1,400 metres (4,600 ft), bordering on the semi-arid region of the Karoo. The area is generally flat with occasional hills ("koppies" in Afrikaans), and the general vegetation is Highveld grassland.
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 ...
Botshabelo is served by 'Interstate Bus Lines' commuter buses and 'Big Sky Coaches', both 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 ...
The document archive developed into the Literary Museum of Bloemfontein. On October 9, 1972, the lawyer Gabriel Francois van Lingen Froneman, the Administrator of Free State, announced the establishment of the NALN. On March 24, 1973, the NALN was officially opened by Johannes Petrus van der Spuy, at the time Minister of National Education.
2,195. 7,202. Asphalt. Co-located with Bloemfontein Airport. AFB Bloemspruit is an airbase of the South African Air Force. It is co-located with Bloemfontein Airport (ICAO: FABL), [1] and shares the airfield. The base motto is Ex Unite Pax ("Peace Through Unity"). The unit is also responsible for maintaining the military airstrip at Vastrap ...
Queen's Fort Military Museum. Queen's Fort Military Museum is a museum in Bloemfontein, South Africa, which depicts all major wars in the Free State from the 1800s. The building was erected in 1848 and put to use for the first time in 1849. Along the years, it has been used as military headquarters, a hospital, an asylum or mental institution ...
Website. www.saarmour.co.za. Insignia. Beret Colour. Black. Armour Squadron emblems. Armour beret bar circa 1992. The South African School of Armour (Afrikaans: Pantserskool) is the training institute of the South African Armoured Corps located at Tempe, Bloemfontein.
The National Women's Monument[1] (Afrikaans: Nasionale Vrouemonument) in Bloemfontein, South Africa, is a monument commemorating the roughly 27,000 Boers who died in British concentration camps during the Second Boer War. The Monument is a Provincial Heritage Site [1] in the Free State. The monument was designed by a Pretoria architect, Frans ...