Huis Ougoud Retirement Village
Huis Ougoud Retirement Village is a village in Matjhabeng Local Municipality, Lejweleputswa District Municipality, Free State. Huis Ougoud Retirement Village is situated nearby to the suburb St Helena, as well as near Bedelia.Places of Interest
Highlights include Welkom-Gimnasium.
Welkom-Gimnasium
School
Welkom-Gimnasium is an academic secondary school in Welkom, South Africa. Founded in 1953 as an Afrikaans school, the school has been a dual-medium school offering classes in English since 1996. Welkom-Gimnasium is situated 2½ km northeast of Huis Ougoud Retirement Village.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Welkom and Thabong.
Welkom
Photo: Caracal Rooikat, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Thabong
Suburb
Photo: Matabane6, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 8 km east of Huis Ougoud Retirement Village.
Huis Ougoud Retirement Village
- Type: Village
- Category: locality
- Location: Matjhabeng Local Municipality, Lejweleputswa District Municipality, Free State, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-27.98835° or 27° 59′ 18″ southLongitude
26.71373° or 26° 42′ 49″ eastOpen location code
5G482P67+MFOpenStreetMap ID
node 3810770659OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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