Eastern Free State

• Arlington, Free State
  Arlington, Free State
  Arlington is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa. It was established as an important railway link between Lindley and Senekal.-Geography and Layout:...
  
  
• Bethlehem
• Clarens
  Clarens, Free State
  Clarens is a small town situated in the foothills of the Maluti Mountains in the Free State province of South Africa and nicknamed the "Jewel of the Eastern Free State"...
  
  
• Clocolan
  Clocolan
  Clocolan, established in 1906, is a small town in the Free State province of South Africa. The Basotho called the place Hlohlolwane . New inhabitants mispronounced the name and called it Clocolan....
  
  
• Cornelia
  Cornelia, Free State
  Cornelia is a small town in the Free State province of South Africa. In 1894 it was named after the wife of former Free State President Francis William Reitz.The town is situated near the Skoonriver .-Fossil Discoveries:...
  
  
• Excelsior
  Excelsior, Free State
  Excelsior is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa. It was formed by farmers in 1910 who wanted a town which was closer to them than Winburg and Ladybrand....
  
  
• Ficksburg
  Ficksburg
  Ficksburg is a town situated at the foot of the 450m high Imperani Mountain in Free State province, South Africa. The town was set up by General Johan Fick who won the territory in the Basotho Wars...
  
  
• Fouriesburg
  Fouriesburg
  Fouriesburg is a small town situated near the Maluti Mountains in the Free State province of South Africa just 9 km from Lesotho. The land was given by Rooi Stoffel Fourie to be used as a temporary seat of the Free State government during the Boer War....
  
  
• Harrismith
  Harrismith
  Harrismith, named after Sir Harry Smith, is a large town in the Free State province of South Africa, situated on the N3 highway approximately midway between Johannesburg, about 300 km north-east, and Durban. The town is at the junction with the N5 highway, which continues west towards the...
  
  
• Hobhouse
  Hobhouse, Free State
  Hobhouse is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa, named after welfare campaigner Emily Hobhouse. Maize, wheat, cheese and livestock are produced here.-External links:*...
  
  
• Kestell
  Kestell
  Kestell is a small maize farming town in the Free State province of South Africa. The town was established in 1905 by Reverend J. D. Kestell only 20 km southeast from the site of the Second Boer War Battle of Groenkop. The battle took place on December 25, 1901 when General Christiaan De Wet...
  
  
• Ladybrand
  Ladybrand
  Ladybrand is a small agricultural town in the Free State province of South Africa, situated 18 km from Maseru, the capital of Lesotho. Ladybrand is one of five towns that forms the Mantsopa Local Municipality...
  
  
• Lindley
  Lindley, Free State
  Lindley is a small town situated on the banks of the Vals River in the eastern region of the Free State province of South Africa. It was established by an American Presbyterian missionary named Daniel Lindley, who was the first ordained minister to the Voortrekkers in Natal.The settlement of...
  
  
• Marquard
  Marquard
  Marquard is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa that serves Winburg in the northwest. The town was set up by an influential Dutch Reform minister, JJ Marquard with the help of Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, the commandant of the Orange Free State in 1905....
  
  
• Memel
  Memel, Free State
  Memel is a small town in the Free State province of South Africa, possibly named after the port city of Memel, East Prussia , but no current residents can verify that.The name means surrounded by water in Old Prussian...
  
  
• Paul Roux
  Paul Roux
  Paul Roux is a small town in the flatlands of Free State province of South Africa that produces poplar wood for the safety match industry. General farming however remains the main industry. It was established in 1909 by Dutch Reform Reverend Paul Roux on the farm Palmietfontein, and today has a...
  
  
• Petrus Steyn
  Petrus Steyn
  Petrus Steyn is a small farming town between Tweeling and Kroonstad in the Free State province of South Africa. The town was established on a farm in 1912 and named after the owner of the farm....
  
  
• Phuthaditjhaba
  Phuthaditjhaba
  Phuthaditjhaba is a town in the Free State province of South Africa. The frequent snow on the Drakensberg mountain peaks surrounding the town led the San to call the region Qwa-Qwa . It was known as Witsiehoek to the European settlers. The area was then turned into the bantustan or homeland of...
  
  
• Reitz
  Reitz
  Reitz is a small maize, wheat and cattle farming town located in the east of the Free State province of South Africa.- Economy and Farming :The town has one of the largest maize silos in the southern hemisphere and is a major maize growing community....
  
  
• Rosendal
  Rosendal, Free State
  Rosendal is a small farming town 43 km north of Ficksburg in the Free State province of South Africa which was founded in 1908....
  
  
• Senekal
  Senekal
  Senekal is a town situated on the banks of the Klipspruit River in the eastern part of the Free State province of South Africa. It was named after Commodant-General FP Senekal. Senekal lies on the N5 national...
  
  
• Steynsrus
  Steynsrus
  Steynsrus is s a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa that was founded in 1910 and named after the last president of the Orange Free State, Martinus Theunis Steyn...
  
  
• Swinburne
  Swinburne, Free State
  Swinburne in the Free State province of South Africa is an important stop over for buses traveling between Johannesburg and Durban on the N3 highway. It has the second oldest bridge in the Free State which was opened 1884 and spans the Wilge River....
  
  
• Tweespruit
  Tweespruit
  Tweespruit is a small dairy farming town in the Free State province of South Africa. It started out as an experimental farm set up on an old British Boer War settlement which was between "two creeks" hence the name....
  
  
• Van Reenen
• Vrede
  Vrede
  Vrede a is town in the Free State province of South Africa that is the agricultural hub of a 100 km² region. Maize, wheat, mutton, wool, beef, dairy products and poultry are farmed in the region. The town was established here after a dispute arose regarding as to where to set up the town in...
  
  
• Warden
• Winburg
  Winburg
  Winburg is a small mixed farming town in the Free State province of South Africa.It is the oldest proclaimed town in the Orange Free State, South Africa and thus along with Griquatown, one of the oldest settlements in South Africa located north of the Orange River.Winburg is situated midway...
  
  

Lejweleputswa (formerly GoldFields)

• Allanridge
  Allanridge
  Allanridge is a gold mining town in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality of the Free State province in South Africa. It is the main centre of the Lorraine Gold Mining Company and is dominated by the tall headgear and complex reduction works that processes thousands of tons of gold-bearing ore...
  
  
• Boshof
  Boshof
  Boshof is the administrative town in the goldfields region of the Free State province, South Africa. The town was formed in 1855 on the Vanwyksvlei farm. It was named after Jacobus Boshoff who became the 2nd President of the Orange Free State on the 27 August 1855.The local commando was involved in...
  
  
• Bothaville
  Bothaville
  Bothaville is a maize farming town situated near the Vaal River in the Lejweleputswa DM of the Free State province, South Africa. It is situated 6km east of the Vaal, on the bank of its Vals River tributary...
  
  
• Brandfort
  Brandfort
  Brandfort is a small town in the Free State province of South Africa. Jacobus van Zijl, a Voortrekker elder, established a church on his farm Keerom in 1866. The community was visited by Orange Free State president Brand and, shortly afterwards, the town was named in his honour. The British built a...
  
  
• Bultfontein
• Dealesville
  Dealesville
  Dealesville is a mixed farming town in the Free State province of South Africa and is surrounded by numerous salt pans. There are many natural springs in the vicinity, most notably Florisbad some 35 km from the town.-History:...
  
  
• Hennenman
  Hennenman
  Hennenman is a small town in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality of the Free State province of South Africa. The town is unusual in the district as its economy is based mainly on agriculture not gold. The town, which started out as a railway station, was previously called Ventersburg Road. The...
  
  
• Hertzogville
  Hertzogville
  Hertzogville is a small cattle and sheep farming town in the Free State province of South Africa. It is named after South Africa's longest-serving prime minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog....
  
  
• Hoopstad
  Hoopstad
  The key town of Hoopstad is situated on the R700 Highway between Bloemfontein and the North West Province. This area is considered to be the richest maize-producing district in South Africa. The town is located near the Bloemhof Dam which is situated on the Vaal River. The Sandveld Nature Reserve...
  
  
• Kgotsong
• Kutlwanong
• Makeleketla
• Odendaalsrus
  Odendaalsrus
  Odendaalsrus is the oldest gold mining town in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality of the Free State province in South Africa.-History:It started out in 1912 as a ramshackle collection of farms and a central church that became a town. In April 1946 gold was struck on the farm Geduld near the town...
  
  
• Theunissen
  Theunissen
  Theunissen is a small town that has the only wine estate, the Theunissen Wine Farm, in the Free State province of South Africa. It was founded by Boer War Commandant Helgaardt Theunissen...
  
  
• Ventersburg
  Ventersburg
  Ventersburg is a small town in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality of the Free State province in South Africa. It was established on the farm Kromfontein which was owned by PA Venter who died in 1857. His son allowed a Reform Church to be established on the farm in 1864 and by 1871, the first...
  
  
• Verkeerdevlei
  Verkeerdevlei
  Verkeerdevlei is a small town in the Free State province of South Africa. It was named after a stream which runs in the opposite direction compared to other streams in the area, hence the name in Afrikaans for "Wrong Marsh". The town is roughly 100 km from Bloemfontein and is in the...
  
  
• Virginia
• Welkom
  Welkom
  Welkom is a city in the Free State province of South Africa, located 160 kilometres northeast of Bloemfontein, the provincial capital. Welkom received municipal status in 1961 and was declared a city in 1968 on the 14th of February...
  
  
• Wesselsbron
  Wesselsbron
  Wesselsbron is a small maize farming town 75 kilometres south of Bothaville in Free State province of South Africa. It was named after the Boer Commandant Cornelius Wessels who led the 1899 Siege of Kimberley during the Second Boer War.-Education:...
  
  
• Winburg
  Winburg
  Winburg is a small mixed farming town in the Free State province of South Africa.It is the oldest proclaimed town in the Orange Free State, South Africa and thus along with Griquatown, one of the oldest settlements in South Africa located north of the Orange River.Winburg is situated midway...
  
  

Northern Free State

• Deneysville
  Deneysville
  Deneysville is a small town on the banks of the Vaal Dam in the Free State province of South Africa. It has been dubbed the "Inland Water Mecca of South Africa"....
  
  
• Edenville
  Edenville, Free State
  Edenville is a small farming town situated in the northern Free State province of South Africa.The town was proclaimed on 29 October 1912.The town is surrounded by a farming community, situated between Heilbron and Kroonstad on the R34 in the Riemland district.Edenville is known for the Sernick...
  
  
• Frankfort
• Heilbron
  Heilbron
  Heilbron is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa which services the cattle, dairy, sorghum, sunflower and maize industries. Raw stock beneficiation occurs in leisure foods, dairy products and stock feeds...
  
  
• Koppies
  Koppies
  Koppies is a small town situated near the Renoster River in the Free State province of South Africa. It was originally called "Honing Kopjes" which is Dutch for "honey hills". This was due to there being Bee infestations in the nearby rocky hills, during the building of the railway line in 1904 by...
  
  
• Kroonstad
  Kroonstad
  Kroonstad is the third-largest town in the Free State province of South Africa, and lies two hours drive from Gauteng. In the 1991 census it had a population of 110,963...
  
  
• Oranjeville
  Oranjeville
  Oranjeville is a small town situated on the banks of the Wilge River in the Free State province of South Africa. It was established as a halfway house for wagonners travelling between Heilbron, Frankfort and Vereeniging. It was named after the Prince of Orange of the Netherlands....
  
  
• Parys
  Parys
  Parys is a town situated on the banks of the Vaal River in the Free State province of South Africa. Population 43,791.In the eariy 1870's, towns in the northern Free State were situated very far apart and members of different churches had to travel great distances to participate in religious...
  
  
• Sasolburg
  Sasolburg
  Sasolburg is a large industrial town in the far north of the Free State province of South Africa. Sasolburg is further sub-divided into three areas: Sasolburg proper, Vaalpark and Zamdela...
  
  
• Tweeling
  Tweeling
  Tweeling is a small town situated 22 km from Frankfort in the Free State province of South Africa. The adjacent black township is named Mafahlaneng, or "place of twins"...
  
  
• Viljoenskroon
  Viljoenskroon
  Viljoenskroon is a maize and cattle farming town in the Free State province of South Africa. It was named after the original farm owner JJ Viljoen and his horse Kroon...
  
  
• Villiers
  Villiers, Free State
  Villiers is a small town situated on the banks of the Vaal River next to the N3 highway in the Free State province of South Africa. It was founded in 1882 on the two farms Pearson Valley and Grootdraai owned by Lourens de Villiers.-Location:...
  
  
• Vredefort
  Vredefort
  Vredefort is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa with cattle, peanuts, sorghum, sunflowers and maize being farmed. It is home to 3,000 residents....
  
  

Transgariep

• Bethulie
  Bethulie
  Bethulie is a small sheep and cattle farming town in the Free State province of South Africa. The name meaning chosen by God was given by directors of a mission station in 1829 which the town formed around. The mission building is the oldest settler built building still standing in the Free State...
  
  
• Bloemfontein
  Bloemfontein
  Bloemfontein is the capital city of the Free State Province of South Africa; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals – the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital.Bloemfontein is popularly and...
  
  
• Botshabelo
  Botshabelo, Free State
  There is another Botshabelo, MpumalangaBotshabelo, meaning "a place of refuge", is a large black settlement set up by the then apartheid government 45 km east of Bloemfontein, Free State province, South Africa...
  
  
• Dewetsdorp
  Dewetsdorp
  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...
  
  
• Edenburg
• Fauresmith
  Fauresmith
  Fauresmith is located 130 km south west of Bloemfontein. The town, named after Rev Phillip Faure and Sir Harry Smith, is the second oldest town in the Free State....
  
  
• Itumeleng
• Jacobsdal
  Jacobsdal
  Jacobsdal is a small farming town at in the Free State province of South Africa with various crops under irrigation, such as grapes, potatoes, lucerne and groundnuts...
  
  
• Jagersfontein
  Jagersfontein
  Jagersfontein is a small town in the Free State province of South Africa. The original farm on which the town stands was once the property of a Griqua Jacobus Jagers, hence the name Jagersfontein. He sold the farm to CF Visser in 1854. A diamond rush started in 1870 after farmer JJ de Klerk found a...
  
  
• Koffiefontein
  Koffiefontein
  Koffiefontein is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa. Farming in the district focuses on cattle and sheep farming with lucerne, potatoes and ground nuts being the main crops sown. There are also a cheese factory and vineyards in the town...
  
  
• Luckhoff
  Luckhoff
  Lückhoff is a small merino sheep farming town in the Free State province of South Africa. It was established on the farm Koffiekuil in 1892 and named after a Dutch Reformed Church minister Reverend HJ Luckhoff....
  
  
• Mangaung
• Petrusburg
  Petrusburg
  Petrusburg is a small mixed farming town in the Free State province of South Africa. It started out as a Dutch Reformed Church serving the farms in 1891...
  
  
• Philippolis
  Philippolis
  Philippolis is a small town in the Free State province of South Africa. It was founded as a missionary outpost for the Bushman in 1823, making it the oldest settlement in the Free State. It was named after John Philip of the London Missionary Society. Adam Kok II, a Griqua leader, settled here with...
  
  
• Reddersburg
  Reddersburg
  Reddersburg is a small town in the Free State province of South Africa. It was established around the Reformed Church Reddersburg which was established on the farm Thorbeck on 7 May 1859. The church counsel bought the farm Vlakfontein to establish the town. The name is Afrikaans and means...
  
  
• Rouxville
• Smithfield
  Smithfield, Free State
  Smithfield is a small town in the Free State province of South Africa. It was founded in 1848 when the then Cape Colony governor, Sir Harry Smith , required a settlement north of the Orange River. Smithfield is the third oldest village in the Free State.-History:Waterval farm was the original site...
  
  
• Springfontein
  Springfontein
  Springfontein is a small mixed farming town in the Free State province of South Africa.The town was established in 1904 on the farm Hartleydale, which was part of the farm Springfontein. The name Springfontein, which is Afrikaans for "jumping spring", stems from the existence of a spring on the...
  
  
• Thaba Nchu
  Thaba Nchu
  Thaba Nchu is a town in Free State, South Africa, located 60 km east of Bloemfontein. Its population is largely made up of Tswana and Sotho people. The town was settled in the 1830s and officially established in 1873...
  
  
• Trompsburg
  Trompsburg
  Trompsburg is a small agricultural town in the Free State province of South Africa off the N1 highway, the major road connection between Johannesburg and Cape Town....
  
  
• Van Stadensrus
• Wepener
  Wepener
  Wepener is a village in the Free State, South Africa, located on the border with Lesotho. The town is named after Louw Wepener, the leader of the Boers in their war with the Basotho chief Moshoeshoe I in 1865. It was founded in 1867 on the banks of Jammersbergspruit, a tributary of the Caledon...
  
  
• Zastron
  Zastron
  Zastron is a small agricultural town in the Free State province of South Africa, some 30 km from the border of Lesotho. It is situated at the foot of Aasvoëlberg , named for the rare Cape Vultures attracted by a feeding project a short distance out of town...