Petrusburg
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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. When it became a town, it was ORIGINALLY STARTED ON A FARM CLOSE TE "EMMAUS" A RAILWAY STATION ON THE LINE BETWEEN BLOEMFONTEIN AND KIMBERLEY, THE ORIGINAL FOUNDATIONS ARE STIL THERE, BUT THEY RAN OUT OF WATER, AND HAD TO MOVE TO THE PRESENT LOCATION WHERE A STRONG FOUNTAIN WAS AVALEBLE. SO MUCH SO THAT THE FIRST HOUSES HAD FREERUNNING WATER FROM THE FOUNTAIN FOR IRRAGATION. THE TOWN WAS named after Petrus Albertus Venter, whose farm, Diepfontein, provided the original land. It is situated between Bloemfontein
(80 km on the N8) and Kimberley (80 km on the N8).
Every year in March, a big music festival is held called the Aartappelfees (Potato Festival). The main street in town is Pretorius Street, but the busiest street is Ossewa street. The main school in town is A.J.C. Jooste High school. Next to Petrusburg is also a large township called Bolokanang, a legacy of the Apartheid era, which is expanding in recent years.
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...
. It started out as a Dutch Reformed Church
Dutch Reformed Church
The Dutch Reformed Church was a Reformed Christian denomination in the Netherlands. It existed from the 1570s to 2004, the year it merged with the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands to form the Protestant Church in the...
serving the farms in 1891. When it became a town, it was ORIGINALLY STARTED ON A FARM CLOSE TE "EMMAUS" A RAILWAY STATION ON THE LINE BETWEEN BLOEMFONTEIN AND KIMBERLEY, THE ORIGINAL FOUNDATIONS ARE STIL THERE, BUT THEY RAN OUT OF WATER, AND HAD TO MOVE TO THE PRESENT LOCATION WHERE A STRONG FOUNTAIN WAS AVALEBLE. SO MUCH SO THAT THE FIRST HOUSES HAD FREERUNNING WATER FROM THE FOUNTAIN FOR IRRAGATION. THE TOWN WAS named after Petrus Albertus Venter, whose farm, Diepfontein, provided the original land. It is situated between 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...
(80 km on the N8) and Kimberley (80 km on the N8).
Every year in March, a big music festival is held called the Aartappelfees (Potato Festival). The main street in town is Pretorius Street, but the busiest street is Ossewa street. The main school in town is A.J.C. Jooste High school. Next to Petrusburg is also a large township called Bolokanang, a legacy of the Apartheid era, which is expanding in recent years.