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    Winburg - Makeleketla is a small mixed farming town in the Free State province of South Africa. It is the oldest proclaimed town (1837) in the Orange...
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    The Eerste Pastorie is an historic residence in Winburg in the Free State of South Africa. The building was constructed in 1850 for the Dutch Reformed...
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    administered the northern part of the territory through a landdrost based at Winburg. This northern area was later in federation with the Republic of Potchefstroom...
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  • Rosendal Senekal Steynsrus Swinburne Tweespruit Van Reenen Vrede Warden Winburg Allanridge Boshof Bothaville Brandfort Bultfontein Dealesville Hennenman...
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    Potgieter's group remained at the Vet river and founded a town called Winburg.: 222  The establishment of the South African Republic had its origins...
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  • small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa that serves Winburg in the northwest. The town was set up in 1905 by an influential Dutch Reform...
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    Bloemfontein and Winburg. Initial plans[citation needed] were for the N1 from Bloemfontein to Winburg to be a dual-carriageway freeway. At Winburg, the N1 bypasses...
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  • South African lawyer, and leader of the Ossewabrandwag. He was born in Winburg and died in Cape Town, a descendant of the Loyalist Johannes Frederik Janse...
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    Steyn family lived near Winburg on the farm Josephinesdal. Steyn was born on 2 October 1857 on the farm Rietfontein near Winburg in the Orange Free State...
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    1967. Swart was born on 5 December 1894 on the Morgenzon farm, in the Winburg district, part of the Boer republic of the Orange Free State (which became...
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    Winburg Commando was a light infantry regiment of the South African Army. It formed part of the South African Army Infantry Formation as well as the South...
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    1835–1864 Limpopo Winburg 1836–1844 Free State Potchefstroom 1837–1844 North West  Natalia Republic 1839–1902 Eastern Cape Winburg-Potchefstroom 1844–1843...
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    bands of Boers who came over the Drakensberg from Winburg and Potchefstroom. Commandant Jan Mocke of Winburg (who had helped to besiege Captain Smith at Durban)...
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    provincial route in Free State, South Africa that connects Welkom with Winburg via Virginia. The R73 begins in Welkom (west of the town centre), at a...
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    towns of Potchefstroom and Winburg and their surrounding territories were a Boer Republic known as the Republic of Winburg-Potchefstroom. Voortrekker...
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    Africa that connects the N1 at Winburg with the N3 at Harrismith, via Senekal, Paul Roux and Bethlehem. The N5 begins in Winburg, at an interchange with the...
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    leading advocates of Boer independence. Born on Doornfontein Farm in the Winburg District of the Orange Free State, Koos was the son of Adrianus Johannes...
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    from Pretoria to Komatipoort N5 - equivalent to the current N5 but from Winburg past Harrismith to Ladysmith (the latter part now signed as the N3) N6...
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    Republic Natalia Republic Nieuwe Republiek Orange Free State Potchefstroom Stellaland Swellendam Transvaal Upingtonia Utrecht Republic Winburg Zoutpansberg...
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  • formed by farmers in 1910 who wanted a town which was closer to them than Winburg and Ladybrand. The farmers had to decide on which farm the town will be...
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    bands of Boers who came over the Drakensberg from Winburg and Potchefstroom. Commandant Jan Mocke of Winburg (who had helped to besiege Captain Smith at Durban)...
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    British forces. During the last phase of the war, Afrikaner people in Winburg taunted the local British garrison with a parody of Sir Walter Scott's...
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    Ladybrand: 30,532 Excelsior: 18,051 Clocolan: 18,542 Marquard: 17,217 Winburg: 17,765 Senekal: 41,551 Ficksburg: 36,810 Fouriesburg: 16,932 Bethlehem:...
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    (51.6%), and made up a substantial minority in Bloemfontein (45.7%) and Winburg (36.3%). In the 2022 census, 72.3% of the population reported their first...
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  • the Free State via Christiana, Hertzogville, Bultfontein, Theunissen, Winburg and Marquard. Its north-western terminus is the N18 at Jan Kempdorp, Northern...
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  • situated in the Free State province, South Africa, on the R73 road between Winburg and Bloemfontein. 28°32′S 26°57′E / 28.533°S 26.950°E / -28.533; 26...
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    of the Vaal as their commandant-general. At the request of the Boers at Winburg, Pretorius crossed the Vaal in July and led the anti-British party in a...
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    Land (1813–1871) Zulu Kingdom (1818–1897) Adam Kok's Land (1825–1861) Winburg (1836–1844) Potchefstroom (1837–1848) Natalia Republic (1839–1843) 1850–1875...
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    Land (1813–1871) Zulu Kingdom (1818–1897) Adam Kok's Land (1825–1861) Winburg (1836–1844) Potchefstroom (1837–1848) Natalia Republic (1839–1843) 1850–1875...
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    Bloemfontein), D.H. van Coller (Heilbron), Christoffel Cornelis Froneman (Winburg and Ladybrand), J.N. Jacobs (Boshof), C. A. van Niekerk (Kroonstad), Wessel...
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