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Thaba Phatswa

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Thaba Phatswa

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Thaba Phatswa is a town in Thabo Mofutsanyane District Municipality in the Free State province of South Africa. The town lies some 30 km south-east of Thaba Nchu and 22 km north of Hobhouse. It takes its name, said to be of Tswana origin and to mean ‘black with white spots’, from the mountain a few kilometres to the south-west.

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