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"The Welkom City Info Pages"  are there to keep residents of the city informed at all times of the weather situation and changes in the weather. The weather service info is updated as we receive it from the South African Weather Service and Africa Weather Service as well as other international providers. Weather updates are received from weather stations at  the Airport as well as in the city itself. LIVE updates and info on Power, Water , Service Delivery & Traffic also available on the pages

 

About the City Of Welkom

 

Welkom (Afrikaans pronunciation: [Velkom]) is a city in the Free State province of South Africa, located about 140 kilometres (90 mi) northeast of Bloemfontein, the provincial capital. Welkom is also known as Circle City, City Within A Garden, Mvela and Matjhabeng. The city's Sesotho name, Matjhabeng means 'where nations meet', derived from the migrant labour system, where people of various countries such as Lesotho, Malawi and Mozambique etc. met to work in the mines of the Goldfields.Welkom is now the second largest city in the Free State Province.

A settlement was laid out on a farm named "Welkom" (which is Afrikaans and Dutch for "welcome") after gold was discovered in the region, and officially proclaimed a town in 1948; it became a municipality in 1961. It now falls in the Matjhabeng Municipality, part of the Lejweleputswa District.Welkom was officially declared a city on 14 February 1968.

 

More on the city at : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welkom