Kopanong Local Municipality

Letsemeng Local Municipality

Mohokare Local Municipality is situated within the Xhariep District in the south-eastern Free State. Zastron is perhaps the best-known of the three villages in this area. At the foot of the esvöelberg is the famous Eye of Zastron, a 9m-wide hole through a sandstone rock. Examples of Bushman art can be found on the various farms in the area. Zastron is very close to Lesotho and a great place to start exploring. Smithfield has a peaceful, splendidly vast, unpolluted countryside, tucked neatly into a horseshoe of hills. Established in 1848 and named after Sir Harry Smith, then Governor of the Cape, Smithfield is the third-oldest town in the Free State province. Rouxville is in the middle of a number of other interesting places such as Smithfield, Aliwal, Xhariep and Zastron, and boasts the impressive Maloti Mountains as a backdrop. Situated on the N6, Rouxville was founded by Petrus Wepener in 1863 on the farm Zuurbult. It was named after Reverand Pieter Roux, who travelled ...

Naledi Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Xhariep District of the Free State. The name is a Sesotho word meaning ‘a star'. The municipality is located in the eastern highland of the region and a border gate to Lesotho is just 7km from Wepener. The area is traversed by the N8 Maloti Tourism Route and the R26 route. The Naledi Municipality is a largely rural community, with almost a third of its land used for farming cattle, sheep and grain. The municipality was incorporated into the Xhariep District following the 2011 local government elections. It has also become known as “The Adventurous Weekend Destination”. Dewetsdorp lies 75km south-east of Bloemfontein on the R702. The town of Dewetsdorp is part of the Battlefields Route. One attraction is the British War Graves and Monument. The town has a beautiful nine-hole golf course and is also the home of the Osram Total Car Rally. Wepener was founded in 1867 on the banks of Jammersbergspruit, a tributary of the Caledon ...