Bothaville

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Bothaville
Bothaville (South Africa)
Bothaville
Bothaville
Coordinates 27 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  S , 26 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 27 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  S , 26 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  E
Basic data
Country South Africa

province

free State
District Lejweleputswa
local community Nala
height 1284 m
surface 43 km²
Residents 4152 (2011)
density 96.6  Ew. / km²
founding 1891
The Dutch Reformed Church in Bothaville
The Dutch Reformed Church in Bothaville

Bothaville is a city in the South African province of Free State (Free State). It is the seat of the municipality of Nala in the Lejweleputswa district .

geography

Bothaville has 4152 inhabitants (2011 census). The township settlement of Kgotsong with 41,878 inhabitants is only a little to the east . Bothaville is located on the Vals , which flows into the Vaal west of Bothaville .

history

The place was founded in 1891 on the Gladdedrift Farm . At first it was called Botharnia, after Theunis Louis Botha, the first owner of the farm. In 1893 it received its current name, also after Botha. In 1914 Bothaville received parish status.

Economy and Transport

The main source of income is agriculture, alongside corn cultivation, sheep breeding and the cultivation of sunflowers, wheat and peanuts. The city lies in the middle of the Maize triangle ("Maisdreieck").

Bothaville is on the R30 , which among other things connects Welkom in the south with Orkney in the north. The R59 runs approximately southwest-northeast, from Hoopstad to Vredefort . The R727 runs southeast from Bothaville towards Kroonstad . The city has a train station on the freight-operated branch line (Orkney–) Vierfontein - Bultfontein . To the north of Bothaville is the Hendrik Potgieter Aerodrome ( ICAO code FABO), named after Andries Hendrik Potgieter .

Culture

The agricultural exhibition NAMPO Agricultural Trade Show or NAMPO Harvest Day has been held annually since 1974 in NAMPO Park to the north . There is also a “wall of remembrance” for the white farmers killed in South Africa since May 1961.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Bothaville  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Bothaville 2011 Census , accessed June 14, 2017
  2. 2011 census Kgotsong , accessed on June 14, 2017
  3. Bothaville ( Memento from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at townexplorer.co.za (English)
  4. Tourist information at sa-venues.com (English), accessed on June 14, 2017
  5. Remembering the farmers who died trying to feed SA. news24.com from May 19, 2017 (English), accessed June 14, 2017