The Province of the Orange Free State ( Afrikaans : Provinsie Oranje-Vrystaat ), commonly referred to as the Orange Free State ( Afrikaans : Oranje-Vrystaat ), Free State ( Afrikaans : Vrystaat ) or by its abbreviation OFS , was one of the four provinces of South Africa from 1910 to 1994. After 27 April 1994 it was dissolved following the first non-racial election in South Africa. It is now called the Free State Province .
3-703: The Orange Free State Championships was a men's and women's international tennis tournament established in 1905 as the Orange River Colony Tennis Championships and was played on outdoor clay courts at the Orange Free State Lawn Tennis Club, Orange Free State , South Africa until 1981. The first Free State tournament on record was played at Ramblers in 1905, and was called the Orange River Colony Tennis Championships. The championships were part of
6-599: The Sugar Circuit (f.1962) of tennis tournaments from the 1960s to 1980s. In 1980 the tournament was ended due to the withdraw of sponsorship by South African Sugar Association. The original six Bloemfontein courts were built behind the Government's buildings, known as the Bloemfontein Tennis club, it later changed its name to the Orange Free State Lawn Tennis Club. Orange Free State (province) Its predecessor
9-519: Was the Orange River Colony which in 1902 had replaced the Orange Free State , a Boer republic. Its outside borders were the same as those of the modern Free State Province ; except for the bantustans ("homelands") of QwaQwa and one part of Bophuthatswana , which were contained on land inside of the provincial Orange Free State borders. Districts of the province and population at
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