Dewetsdorp
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Dewetsdorp is a small town in the Free State
province of South Africa
. The town was set up, without approval of the Volksraad
, by field-cornet Jacobus de Wet, father of the Boer War general Christiaan de Wet
. Eventually recognized officially, the town became a municipality and named De Wet in 1890.
Dewetsdorp itself is a mainly white town. As of the 2001 census, the town had a population of 930, of which 597 (64.2%) were white. The remainder were black (33.6%) and Indian (1.3%) or Coloured (1.0%). Dewetsdorp's township, Morojaneng was established to house the black population of Dewetsdorp and now has a staggering population of over 7,100. Of these, 98.8% are black. Most of the black inhabitants are Sesotho speakers.
Free State
The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...
province of South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. The town was set up, without approval of the Volksraad
Volksraad
The Volksraad was the parliament of the former South African Republic , which existed from 1857 to 1902 in part of what is now the South Africa. The body ceased to exist after the British victory in the Second Anglo-Boer War. The Volksraad sat in session in Ou Raadsaal in Church Square, Pretoria...
, by field-cornet Jacobus de Wet, father of the Boer War general Christiaan de Wet
Christiaan De Wet
Christiaan Rudolf de Wet was a Boer general, rebel leader and politician.He was born on the Leeuwkop farm, in the district of Smithfield in the Boer Republic of the Orange Free State...
. Eventually recognized officially, the town became a municipality and named De Wet in 1890.
Dewetsdorp itself is a mainly white town. As of the 2001 census, the town had a population of 930, of which 597 (64.2%) were white. The remainder were black (33.6%) and Indian (1.3%) or Coloured (1.0%). Dewetsdorp's township, Morojaneng was established to house the black population of Dewetsdorp and now has a staggering population of over 7,100. Of these, 98.8% are black. Most of the black inhabitants are Sesotho speakers.