Bronville
Bronville is a town in Matjhabeng Local Municipality, Lejweleputswa District Municipality, Free State and has an elevation of 1,358 metres. Bronville is situated nearby to the suburb Hani Park, as well as near Oppenheimer Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thabong and Riebeeckstad.
Thabong
Suburb
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Thabong is the second largest township after Botshabelo in the Free State province of South Africa. The township was established during the years of segregation of black people as well as the township of Bronville for coloured people adjacent to the city of Welkom, to accommodate workers at the world's richest gold mines. Thabong is situated 4½ km northwest of Bronville.
Riebeeckstad
Town
Photo: Ossewa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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. Riebeeckstad is situated 8 km north of Bronville.
Welkom
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Welkom is the second-largest city in the Free State province. Welkom is known as "Circle City", "City within a Garden", "Mvela" and "Matjhabeng". The city's Sotho name, Matjhabeng, means 'where nations meet', derived from the migrant labour system, where people of various countries such as Lesotho, Malawi and Mozambique met to work in the mines of the gold fields.
Bronville
- Type: Town
- Category: locality
- Location: Matjhabeng Local Municipality, Lejweleputswa District Municipality, Free State, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-27.99861° or 27° 59′ 55″ southLongitude
26.82222° or 26° 49′ 20″ eastElevation
1,358 metres (4,455 feet)Open location code
5G482R2C+HVOpenStreetMap ID
node 262719486OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
11239753
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