Dewetsdorp

Dewetsdorp is a small town in the Free State province of South Africa. The town was set up, without approval of the Volksraad, by field-cornet Jacobus de Wet, father of the Boer War general Christiaan de Wet. Eventually recognized officially, the town became a municipality and named De Wet in 1890. General Christian de Wet successfully attacked English forces stationed there in November of 1900.

Dewetsdorp itself is a mainly white town. As of the 2001 census, the town had a population of 930, of which 597 (64.2%) were white. The remainder were black (33.6%) and Indian (1.3%) or Coloured (1.0%). Dewetsdorp's township, Morojaneng was established to house the black population of Dewetsdorp and now has a staggering population of over 7,100. Of these, 98.8% are black. Most of the black inhabitants are Sesotho speakers.