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Place in Free State, South Africa From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vierfontein is a settlement in Fezile Dabi District Municipality in the Free State province of South Africa. Vierfontein is a coal-mining village, formerly associated to the Vierfontein Power Station, which was active from 1953 to 1990. When the power station was decommissioned, the village was sold to a property developer. The abandoned fuel station was used in the film "Orkney snork nie".[2]
Vierfontein | |
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Coordinates: 27.097°S 26.776°E | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | Free State |
District | Fezile Dabi |
Municipality | Moqhaka |
Area | |
• Total | 8.21 km2 (3.17 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 825 |
• Density | 100/km2 (260/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011) | |
• Black African | 20.1% |
• Coloured | 0.1% |
• White | 79.6% |
• Other | 0.1% |
First languages (2011) | |
• Afrikaans | 75.2% |
• Sotho | 16.1% |
• English | 4.7% |
• Tswana | 2.1% |
• Other | 1.9% |
Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
Postal code (street) | 2615 |
PO box | 2615 |
Area code | 018 |
Directly translated to English from Afrikaans, the name literally means "four fountains".
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