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Welkom
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Welkom () is a city in the Free State province of South Africa, located about northeast of Bloemfontein, the provincial capital. Welkom is also known as Circle City, City Within A Garden, Mvela and Matjhabeng. The city's Sesotho name, Matjhabeng means 'where nations meet', derived from the migrant labour system, where people of various countries such as Lesotho, Malawi and Mozambique etc. met to work in the mines of the gold fields.
Key facts
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- Matjhabeng
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- Welkom
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- Goldfields mall Welkom.jpg
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- Goldfields Mall
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- Circle City; City Within a Garden; Mvela
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- South Africa Free State#South Africa#Africa
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- Country
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- South Africa
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- Province
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- Free State
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- District
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- Lejweleputswa
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- Municipality
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- Matjhabeng
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- Main Place
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- Established
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- 167.6
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Encyclopedic overview
47 sectionsContents
- History
- Early mining activity
- Development of the settlement
- Apartheid era
- 1990–present
- Geography
- Topography
- Neighborhoods
- Streetscape
- Monuments and public art
- Climate
- Flora and fauna
- Local geology: gold-bearing reefs
- The De Bron Fault
- Basal Reef
- Leader Reef
- Fossils of Matjhabeng
- Demographics
- Economy
- Mining
- Gold and uranium
- Recent discoveries
- Coal
- Diamonds
- Other minerals
- Industry
- Agriculture
- Sport
- Motor-sports
- Soccer
- Rugby
- Gliding
- Stadia and other sports facilities
- Parks and greenspace
- Education
- Secondary education
- Special needs schools
- Tertiary education
- Infrastructure
- Transportation
- Road
- Rail
- Air
- Health systems
- Notable people
- Sportspeople
- References
Welkom () is a city in the Free State province of South Africa, located about northeast of Bloemfontein, the provincial capital. Welkom is also known as Circle City, City Within A Garden, Mvela and Matjhabeng. The city's Sesotho name, Matjhabeng means 'where nations meet', derived from the migrant labour system, where people of various countries such as Lesotho, Malawi and Mozambique etc. met to work in the mines of the gold fields.
A settlement was laid out on a farm named "Welkom" (which is the Afrikaans and Dutch word for "welcome") after gold was discovered in the region, and it was officially proclaimed a town in 1948. The town became a municipality in 1961. It now falls in the Matjhabeng Municipality, part of the Lejweleputswa District.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Welkom” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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