Bloemfontein

Bloemfontein (IPA: [ˈblumfɑnˌte(ɪ)n], Afrikaans and Dutch for "spring of Bloem (bloom)", "flower spring" or "fountain of flowers" is the capital city of the Free State Province of South Africa. The city's Sesotho name is Mangaung, meaning "place of cheetahs." Bloemfontein is popularly and poetically known as "the city of roses", owing to the abundance of these flowers and the annual rose festival held there. Although Bloemfontein has a reputation for its flowers in an otherwise arid region, the city's name is alleged by some to refer to Jan Bloem (1775-1858), a Korana Griqua leader whose people inhabited (and still inhabit) parts of the Free State and Northern Cape. This theory is ridiculous as the emerging Boer settlement had no time for the non-white peoples in S Africa - and this settlement was named by them in the 1840s long before Warden came to town.

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