Ventersburg is a small town in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality

Lejweleputswa District Municipality

Lejweleputswa is one of the 5 districts of Free State province of South Africa. The seat of Lejweleputswa is Welkom. The majority of its 657 019 people speak Sotho...

 of the Free State

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 in 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...

. It was established on the farm Kromfontein which was owned by PA Venter who died in 1857

1857 in South Africa

-Events:* Robert Moffat completes Old Testament Bible translation into Setswana* Approximately 157 Irish women arrive on the ship "Lady Kennaway", settle in British Kaffraria.* The first Legislative Council is selected in the Natal Colony...

. His son allowed a Reform Church to be established on the farm in 1864

1864 in South Africa

-Events:* The Republic of New Scotland is set up in what is now the Amsterdam region in Mpumalanga* Bloemhof is founded on the banks of the Vaal River when diamonds are discovered in the area...

 and by 1871

1871 in South Africa

-Events:* Gold is discovered in Pilgrim's Rest area* A mail route is established from Cape Town to the diamond fields* An diamond is discovered and leads to a diamond rush...

, the first plots of the original farm were sold. Ventersburg was decared on 6 May 1873. The Dutch Reform Church was built in Ventersburg in 1891

1891 in South Africa

-Events:* 12 January - Mahatma Gandhi passes the Bar examination in England* 11 June - Britain and Portugal agree on territory in East Africa at the Anglo-Portuguese Convention in Lisbon-Sport:* The British Isles rugby union team first tour of South Africa....

  but it was burnt down in 1900

1900 in South Africa

- January :* 10 January - Frederick Roberts arrives at Cape Town to replace Redvers Henry Buller as commander-in-chief of the British forces in South Africa...

 by the British forces during the Boer War

Second Boer War

The Second Boer War was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking Dutch settlers of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State...

. The church was later re-built in 1912

1912 in South Africa

-Events:* 4 January - Outbreak of smallpox is reported in the Malay Location, Johannesburg* 8 January - The South African Native National Congress is formed in Bloemfontein and John Langalibalele Dube becomes the first president...

. Municipality was also burnt down by the British forces during the Boer War

Second Boer War

The Second Boer War was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking Dutch settlers of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State...

. Is located 148.09 kilometers from Bloemfontein (Capital City of the Free State).

In 1903

1903 in South Africa

-Events:* The County of Pembroke, a British cargo ship, is shipwrecked near Port Elizabeth* February - Mahatma Gandhi enrolled to the Bar of the Transvaal Supreme Court...

, Ventersburg became a municipality but on the 5 December 2000 it was incorporated into the Matjhabeng Local Municipality

Matjhabeng Local Municipality

Matjhabeng Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Lejweleputswa District of the Free State in South Africa, that includes the city of Welkom. The name is a Sesotho word meaning "where nations meet". It is derived from the migrant labour system where people from various countries like...

 along with the city of 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...

 and the towns of 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...

, 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...

, 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...

, and Virginia

Virginia, Free State

Virginia is a gold mining town located in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality of the Free State province in South Africa about 140 km northeast of Bloemfontein the provincial capital...

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During the apartheid era, black people were forced to live outside Ventersburg in the location of Mamahabane.