Welkom, the Glossary
Welkom is the second-largest city in the Free State province of South Africa, located about northeast of Bloemfontein, the provincial capital.[1]
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- 1947 establishments in South Africa
- Populated places in the Matjhabeng Local Municipality
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Ancylotherium
Ancylotherium (from Greek, meaning "hooked beast") is an extinct genus of the family Chalicotheriidae, subfamily Schizotheriinae, endemic to Europe, Asia, and Africa during the Late Miocene-Early Pleistocene (11.6—1.8 mya), existing for approximately.
Anglo American plc
Anglo American plc is a British multinational mining company with headquarters in London, England.
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Apartheid
Apartheid (especially South African English) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s.
Aristida
Aristida is a very nearly cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family.
Artiodactyl
Artiodactyls are placental mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla. Typically, they are ungulates which bear weight equally on two (an even number) of their five toes (the third and fourth, often in the form of a hoof).
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Bantu peoples of South Africa
South African Bantu-speaking peoples represent the majority ethno-racial group of South Africans.
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Bay of Biscay
The Bay of Biscay is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea.
Bidvest Wits F.C.
Bidvest Wits Football Club, (simply often known as Wits University F.C. or Wits) was a South African professional football club from Johannesburg which played in the Premier Soccer League the first-tier of South African league football system.
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Black Economic Empowerment
Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) is a policy of the South African government which aims to facilitate broader participation in the economy by black people.
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Bloemfontein
Bloemfontein, also known as Bloem, is the capital and the largest city of the Free State province in South Africa.
Bloemfontein Celtic F.C.
Bloemfontein Celtic Football Club (simply known as Celtic) is a South African amateur football club based in Bloemfontein that competes in the ABC Motsepe League, the third tier of the South African football league system.
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Bothaville
Bothaville is a maize farming town situated near the Vaal River in the Lejweleputswa DM of the Free State province, South Africa.
Bradley Moolman
Bradley Johannes Moolman (born 18 January 1991 in Welkom) is a South African rugby union footballer currently playing for the.
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Brandfort
Brandfort, officially renamed Winnie Mandela in 2021, is a small agricultural town in the central Free State province of South Africa, about 60 km northeast of Bloemfontein on the R30 road.
Brian McMillan
Brian Mervin McMillan (born 22 December 1963) played 38 Test matches and 78 One Day Internationals for South Africa from 1991 to 1998.
Bultfontein
Bultfontein is a town in the Free State province of South Africa with a total population of about 23,400 people.
Calcite
Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3).
Canonical (company)
Canonical Ltd. is a privately held computer software company based in London, England.
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Cape Coloureds
Cape Coloureds are a South African ethnic classification consisting primarily of persons of mixed race African, Asian and European descent.
Cape porcupine
The Cape porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis), Cape crested porcupine or South African porcupine, is a species of Old World porcupine native to central and southern Africa.
Cape Town
Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa.
Cape Town Spurs F.C.
Cape Town Spurs F.C. (formerly known as Ajax Cape Town) is a South African professional football club based in Parow in the city of Cape Town that plays in the South African Premier Division.
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Casino
A casino is a facility for certain types of gambling.
Christo Ferreira
Christoffel 'Christo' Ferreira (born 28 August 1960) is a former South African rugby union player.
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CJ van der Linde
Christoffel Johannes van der Linde (born 27 August 1980) is a South African former professional rugby union player and currently the scrum coach at French Top 14 side.
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Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a carbonated soft drink with a cola flavor manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company.
Coloureds
Coloureds (Kleurlinge) refers to members of multiracial ethnic communities in South Africa who have ancestry from African, European, and Asian people.
Conglomerate (geology)
Conglomerate is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts.
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Country
A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity.
Danie Craven
Daniël Hartman Craven (11 October 1910 – 4 January 1993) was a South African rugby union player (1931–1938), national coach, national and international rugby administrator, academic, and author.
Dean Elgar
Dean Elgar (born 11 June 1987) is a South African cricketer who played Tests and ODIs, and also a former Test captain.
Dewald Pretorius
Dewald Pretorius (born 6 December 1977) is a South African cricketer.
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District
A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government.
Dutch language
Dutch (Nederlands.) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language.
Elinda Vorster
Elinda Vorster (née Rademeyer; born 8 September 1965 in Cape Town) is a retired South African athlete who specialised in sprinting events.
English people
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture.
Eragrostis
Eragrostis is a large and widespread genus of plants in the grass family, found in many countries on all inhabited continents and many islands.
ESPNscrum
ESPNscrum was an online news site based in United Kingdom dedicate to providing the latest news in rugby union.
First language
A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period.
Franco Mostert
Franco John Mostert (born 27 November 1990) is a South African professional rugby union player who currently plays for Honda Heat and the South Africa national team.
Free State (province)
The Free State (Freistata; Vrystaat; iFreyistata; Foreistata; iFuleyisitata), formerly known as the Orange Free State, is a province of South Africa.
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Free State Gold Rush
The Free State Gold Rush was a gold rush in Free State, South Africa.
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Gerard Brophy
Gerard Louis Brophy (born 26 November 1975, Welkom, Orange Free State, South Africa) is a first-class cricketer, latterly contracted to Yorkshire.
Gerrie Sonnekus
Gerhardus Hermanus Hendrikus 'Gerrie' Sonnekus (born 1 February 1953) is a former South African rugby union player.
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Gold mining
Gold mining is the extraction of gold by mining.
Grand Prix motorcycle racing
Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the highest class of motorcycle road racing events held on road circuits sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM).
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Griffons (rugby union)
The Northern Free State Griffons (currently known as the Novavit Griffons for sponsorship reasons) are a South African rugby union team that participates in the annual Currie Cup and SA Cup tournaments.
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Ground squirrel
Ground squirrels are rodents of the squirrel family (Sciuridae) that generally live on the ground or in burrows, rather than in trees like the tree squirrels.
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Hannes Strydom
Johannes Jacobus "Hannes" Strydom (13 July 1965 – 19 November 2023) was a South African rugby union player who played for the South Africa national rugby union team between 1993 and 1997.
Horst (geology)
In physical geography and geology, a horst is a raised fault block bounded by normal faults.
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Hyparrhenia hirta
Hyparrhenia hirta is a species of grass known by the common names common thatching grass and Coolatai grass.
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Illegal mining
Illegal mining is mining activity that is undertaken without state permission.
Indian South Africans
Indian South Africans are South Africans who descend from indentured labourers and free migrants who arrived from British India during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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Iridium
Iridium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ir and atomic number 77.
Jaco van Zyl
Jaco Phillipus van Zyl (born 23 February 1979) is a professional golfer from South Africa.
Jandré Marais
Jandré Marais (born 14 June 1989) is a South African rugby union footballer.
Jannie de Beer
Jan Hendrik "Jannie" de Beer (born 22 April 1971) is a South African former rugby union player.
Johannesburg
Johannesburg (Zulu and Xhosa: eGoli) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa with 4,803,262 people, and is classified as a megacity; it is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world.
Joubert Horn
Joubert Prinsloo Horn (born 8 October 1988) is a former South African rugby union player whose usual playing position was lock.
Judy Croome
J A Croome is a South African novelist, short story writer, and poet.
Kaapvaal Craton
The Kaapvaal Craton (centred on the Limpopo Province in South Africa), along with the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia, are the only remaining areas of pristine 3.6–2.5 Ga (billion years ago) crust on Earth.
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Karoo
The Karoo (from the Afrikaans borrowing of the South Khoekhoe !Orakobab or Khoemana word ǃ’Aukarob "Hardveld") is a semi-desert natural region of South Africa.
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Khwezi Mkhafu
Khwezilokusa Mkhafu is a South African rugby union player for the Griffons (rugby union) in the Currie Cup and in the Rugby Challenge.
Kimberlite
Kimberlite, an igneous rock and a rare variant of peridotite, is most commonly known to be the main host matrix for diamonds.
Klerksdorp
Klerksdorp is located in the North West Province, South Africa.
Kroonstad
Kroonstad (Afrikaans directly translated "Crown City"), also known as Maokeng, is the fourth largest town in the Free State (after Bloemfontein, Welkom and Bethlehem) and lies two hours' drive on the N1 from Gauteng.
Langebaanweg
Langebaanweg is a town on the southwest coast of South Africa, in Western Cape Province.
Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Las Vegas Motor Speedway (track complex formerly known as Las Vegas Speedway Park from 1993 to 1996, Las Vegas Speedway in 1992, Las Vegas International Speedway from 1990 to 1992, as the Las Vegas International Speedrome from 1972 to 1990) is a tri-oval intermediate speedway in North Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Lejweleputswa District Municipality
The Lejweleputswa District Municipality (Masepala wa Setereke wa Lejweleputswa; uMasipala weSithili sase Lejweleputswa; Lejweleputswa-distriksmunisipaliteit) is one of the 5 districts of the Free State province of South Africa.
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Lerato Manzini
Lerato Manzini (born 14 August 1991) is a South African professional footballer who plays as a forward Karbala sport SC.
Lesotho
Lesotho, formally the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
Linda Olivier
Linda Olivier (born 17 April 1965) is a South African former cricketer who played as a right-handed batter She appeared in 28 One Day Internationals for South Africa between 1997 and 2000.
Louis Strydom
Louis Isias Strydom (born 21 October 1980) is a South African rugby union player, currently playing with the.
Lukas van Biljon
Lukas van Biljon (born 18 March 1976) is a South African former rugby union international.
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Makapansgat
Makapansgat (or Makapan Valley World Heritage Site) is an archaeological location within the Makapansgat and Zwartkrans Valleys, northeast of Mokopane in Limpopo province, South Africa.
Malawi
Malawi (in Chichewa and Chitumbuka), officially the Republic of Malawi and formerly known as Nyasaland, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa.
Mammoth
A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid genus Mammuthus. They lived from the late Miocene epoch (from around 6.2 million years ago) into the Holocene about 4,000 years ago, and various species existed in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America.
Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African and British entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Canonical, the company behind the development of the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system.
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Matjhabeng Local Municipality
Matjhabeng Municipality (Masepala wa Matjhabeng; uMasipala wase Matjhabeng; Matjhabeng Munisipaliteit) is a local municipality within the Lejweleputswa District Municipality, in the Free State province of South Africa.
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Megalotragus
Megalotragus (from Greek mega (μέλα) 'great' and tragos (τράγος) 'goat') was a genus of very large extinct African alcelaphines that occurred from the Pliocene to early Holocene.
Mosa Lebusa
Mosa Lebusa (born 10 October 1992) is a South African professional soccer player who plays for Mamelodi Sundowns.
Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.
Municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
Muscovite
Muscovite (also known as common mica, isinglass, or potash mica) is a hydrated phyllosilicate mineral of aluminium and potassium with formula KAl2(AlSi3O10)(F,OH)2, or (KF)2(Al2O3)3(SiO2)6(H2O).
Nevada
Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.
North West Stadium
North West Stadium (currently known as the Down Touch Investments Stadium for sponsorship reasons) is a sports stadium in Welkom, South Africa.
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Odendaalsrus
Odendaalsrus is the oldest gold mining town in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality in the goldfields of the Free State province in South Africa. Welkom and Odendaalsrus are Populated places in the Matjhabeng Local Municipality.
Oval track racing
Oval track racing is a form of motorsport that is contested on an oval-shaped race track.
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Paseka Sekese
Paseka Sekese (born 1 April 1994) is a South African football (soccer) midfielder who plays for Richards Bay FC on loan from Premier Soccer League club Bidvest Wits FC.
Peet Marais
Peet Celliers Marais is a South African rugby union footballer.
Pennyweight
A pennyweight (dwt) is a unit of mass equal to 24 grains, of a troy ounce, of a troy pound, approximately 0.054857 avoirdupois ounce and exactly 1.55517384 grams.
Perissodactyla
Perissodactyla is an order of ungulates.
Phakisa Freeway
Phakisa Freeway is a motor racing circuit located between Welkom and Odendaalsrus, South Africa.
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Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.
Post office box
A post office box (commonly abbreviated as P.O. box, or also known as a postal box) is a uniquely addressable lockable box located on the premises of a post office.
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Postal codes in South Africa
Postal codes were introduced in South Africa on 8 October 1973, with the introduction of automated sorting.
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Premier Soccer League
The Premier Soccer League (PSL; Premier Sokkerliga) is the professional soccer leagues-and-cups administrator in South Africa based in Johannesburg and founded in 1996 following an agreement between the National Soccer League and the remnants of the National Professional Soccer League (NPSL).
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Proboscidea
Proboscidea is a taxonomic order of afrotherian mammals containing one living family (Elephantidae) and several extinct families.
Provinces of South Africa
South Africa is divided into nine provinces.
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Pyrophyllite
Pyrophyllite is a phyllosilicate mineral composed of aluminium silicate hydroxide: Al2Si4O10(OH)2.
Quartzite
Quartzite is a hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.
R30 (South Africa)
The R30 is a provincial route in South Africa that connects Bloemfontein with Rustenburg via Brandfort, Welkom, Bothaville, Klerksdorp and Ventersdorp.
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R34 (South Africa)
The R34 is a long provincial route in South Africa that connects Vryburg with Richards Bay via Kroonstad and Newcastle.
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R710 (South Africa)
The R710 is a Regional Route in Free State, South Africa that connects Welkom with Bultfontein.
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R73 (South Africa)
The R73 is a provincial route in Free State, South Africa that connects Welkom with Winburg via Virginia.
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R730 (South Africa)
The R730 is a Regional Route in Free State, South Africa.
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Richter scale
The Richter scale, also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and presented in Richter's landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale".
Riebeeckstad
Riebeeckstad is a suburb 5 km east of the city of Welkom located in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality of the Free State province of South Africa. Welkom and Riebeeckstad are Populated places in the Matjhabeng Local Municipality.
Rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.
Rutile
Rutile is an oxide mineral composed of titanium dioxide (TiO2), the most common natural form of TiO2.
Saccostomus
Saccostomus is a genus of rodent in the family Nesomyidae, or pouched mice.
Sand River (Free State)
The Sand River (Sandrivier, formerly Zandrivier) is a river in the Free State province, South Africa.
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Seabelo Senatla
Seabelo Mohanoe Senatla (born 10 February 1993) is a South African rugby union player for the South African Sevens Side.
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Second Boer War
The Second Boer War (Tweede Vryheidsoorlog,, 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange Free State) over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa.
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Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation.
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Shoprite Holdings Ltd
Shoprite Holdings Ltd (Shoprite) is Africa’s largest supermarket retailer, operating 3,543 stores across the continent (distribution of total operations as at 31 December 2023).
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Sotho language
Sotho Sesotho, also known as Southern Sotho or Sesotho sa Borwa is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho–Tswana ("S.30") group, spoken in Lesotho, and South Africa where it is an official language.
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
South African Breweries
South African Breweries (officially The South African Breweries Limited, informally SAB) is a major brewery headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa and was a wholly owned subsidiary of SABMiller until its interests were sold to Anheuser-Busch InBev on 10 October 2016.
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South African motorcycle Grand Prix
The South African motorcycle Grand Prix was a motorcycling event that had been part of the Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championship, held intermittently from 1983 to 2004.
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South African Rugby Union
The South African Rugby Union (SARU) is the governing body for rugby union in South Africa and is affiliated to World Rugby.
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South African Standard Time
South African Standard Time (SAST) is the time zone used by all of South Africa as well as Eswatini and Lesotho.
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Sporobolus
Sporobolus is a nearly cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family.
Stephen Brislin
Stephen Brislin (born 24 September 1956) is a South African prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy is a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification).
Stratum
In geology and related fields, a stratum (strata) is a layer of rock or sediment characterized by certain lithologic properties or attributes that distinguish it from adjacent layers from which it is separated by visible surfaces known as either bedding surfaces or bedding planes.
Syncline
In structural geology, a syncline is a fold with younger layers closer to the center of the structure, whereas an anticline is the inverse of a syncline.
Tarring and feathering
Tarring and feathering is a form of public torture where a victim is stripped naked, or stripped to the waist, while wood tar (sometimes hot) is either poured or painted onto the person.
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Telephone numbers in South Africa
South Africa switched to a closed numbering system effective 16 January 2007.
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Thandi Tshabalala
Thandi Tshabalala (born 19 November 1984) is a South African cricketer who plays first-class cricket for the Eagles as a specialist off spinner.
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Themeda triandra
Themeda triandra is a species of C4 perennial tussock-forming grass widespread in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Pacific.
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Theunissen
Theunissen is a small town that has the only wine estate, the Theunissen Wine Farm, in the Free State province of South Africa.
Thrust reversal
Thrust reversal, also called reverse thrust, is the temporary diversion of an aircraft engine's thrust for it to act against the forward travel of the aircraft, providing deceleration.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
Uraninite
Uraninite, also known as pitchblende, is a radioactive, uranium-rich mineral and ore with a chemical composition that is largely UO2 but because of oxidation typically contains variable proportions of U3O8.
Uranium
Uranium is a chemical element; it has symbol U and atomic number 92.
Vaal River
The Vaal River (Khoemana: italic) is the largest tributary of the Orange River in South Africa.
Vein (geology)
In geology, a vein is a distinct sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
Virginia, South Africa
Virginia is a gold mining town located in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality and on goldfields of the Free State province in South Africa about 140 km (90 mi) northeast of Bloemfontein, the provincial capital. Welkom and Virginia, South Africa are Populated places in the Matjhabeng Local Municipality.
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Welkom mining explosion
At least 31 people are suspected to have died in a methane gas explosion at a disused gold mine in South Africa around the third week of May in 2023.
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Welkom-Gimnasium
Welkom-Gimnasium is an academic secondary school in Welkom, South Africa.
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White South Africans
White South Africans are South Africans of European descent.
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Winburg
Winburg - Makeleketla is a small mixed farming town in the Free State province of South Africa.
Witwatersrand
The Witwatersrand (locally the Rand or, less commonly, the Reef) is a, north-facing scarp in South Africa.
Wynand Olivier
Wynand Olivier (born 11 June 1983) is a former South African professional rugby union player.His usual position was at centre.
Xhosa language
Xhosa, formerly spelled Xosa and also known by its local name isiXhosa, is a Nguni language, indigenous to Southern Africa and one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Yellow mongoose
The yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicillata), sometimes referred to as the red meerkat, is a member of the mongoose family.
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Zarck Visser
Zarck Visser (born 15 September 1989) is a South African athlete specialising in the long jump.
Zuka Baloyi Stadium
Zuka Baloyi Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Welkom, Free State, South Africa.
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1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
The 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 51st F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.
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2004 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
The 2004 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 56th F.I.M. Road racing World Championship season.
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2011 South African census
The South African National Census of 2011 is the 3rd comprehensive census performed by Statistics South Africa.
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See also
1947 establishments in South Africa
Populated places in the Matjhabeng Local Municipality
- Allanridge
- Hennenman
- Odendaalsrus
- Riebeeckstad
- Thabong
- Ventersburg
- Virginia, South Africa
- Welkom
- Whites, Free State
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welkom
Also known as History of Welkom, Welkom (city), Welkom, Free State.
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