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Shiwe Nongwanya
Shiwe Octovia Nogwanya (also Nongwanya; born 7 March 1994) is a South African football Striker (association football), striker. She plays for Bloemfontein Celtic and the South Africa women's national football team. Playing career Nongwanya was called up to the senior national team in February 2013 in preparation for the 2013 Cyprus Cup. She made her first appearance for the team during the tournament. In September 2014, Nongwanya was named to the roster for the 2014 African Women's Championship in Namibia. References Living people 1994 births People from Kroonstad Women's association football forwards South African women's soccer players Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics South Africa women's international soccer players Olympic soccer players for South Africa Soccer players from the Free State (province) {{SouthAfrica-women-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kroonstad
Kroonstad (Afrikaans directly translated "Crown City") is the third largest city in the Free State (after Bloemfontein and Welkom) and lies two hours' drive on the N1 from Gauteng. Maokeng is an area within Kroonstad, and is occasionally used as a synonym of the town itself. It is the second-largest commercial and urban centre in the Northern Free State (after Welkom), and an important railway junction on the main line from Cape Town to Johannesburg. ''Maokeng'' is Sesotho and means "place of the thorn trees (mimosa trees)". History Kroonstad was established in 1855 by the Irish pioneer Joseph Orpen, and was the first founded after the independence of the Orange Free State. While ' means "crown", this was in fact the name of a horse that had drowned in the nearby ford. A lover of animals, Orpen had witnessed the incident, and named the infant settlement in honour of the unfortunate creature. Similarly, the ford in question came to be known as ''Kroondrift''. During the Seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |