Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of central South Africa east-southeast of Kimberley. It is unofficially called the judicial capital of the country because the appellate division of the national supreme court sits here.
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- proper noun A major city and the
judicial capital ofSouth Africa .
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- noun the seat of the supreme court
Etymologies
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Examples
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-- MANGAUNG/BLOEMFONTEIN - Bloemfontein is the nation's judicial capital situated about 400 kilometres south-west of Johannesburg in
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Charlie the chimp started smoking when some visitors to Mangaung zoo, in Bloemfontein, threw him lit cigarettes.
Charlie, South African Smoking Chimp, Dies At Age 52 Despite Habit BBC News 2010
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Charlie the chimp started smoking when some visitors to Mangaung zoo, in Bloemfontein, threw him lit cigarettes.
Charlie, South African Smoking Chimp, Dies At Age 52 Despite Habit The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Charlie the chimp started smoking when some visitors to Mangaung zoo, in Bloemfontein, threw him lit cigarettes.
Charlie, South African Smoking Chimp, Dies At Age 52 Despite Habit BBC News 2010
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In making these vague and unsubstantiated generalizations, Mr. Ngubane has deliberately elected to forget the record attendance of delegates from all provinces at the A.N.C. Conference held in Bloemfontein in December, 1951, where it was unanimously resolved to launch defiance.
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Likotsi addressed a media conference during a break in the proceedings of the TRC's amnesty committee hearing in Bloemfontein, which is considering applications for amnesty by six members of the
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"To call Bloemfontein a 'tranquil city', whose major physical asset seems to be its immunity to attack by the navies of the world, is to make yourself the laughing stock of the nation," Cap said.
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The highway from Johannesburg to Bloemfontein is today likely to resemble Wacky Races as
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The England team would play their fixture either in Rustenburg or in Bloemfontein, which is
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The report on a visit to 16 Squadron outside Bloemfontein which is home to the helicopter, said that a further R40 million a year was needed to operate the aircraft of which R10 million would be needed to buy missiles for the war machine.
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