Taaibos Lifestyle Estate is a new developing estate in the Free State province of

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

and part of the

Metsimaholo Local Municipality Metsimaholo Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Fezile Dabi District of the Free State in South Africa. "Metsimaholo" means "big water" in Sesotho. Main places The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main pl ...

. Taaibos Lifestyle Estate is a former coal-mining village located between

Sasolburg Sasolburg is a large industrial city within the Metsimaholo Local Municipality in the far north of the Free State province of South Africa. Sasolburg is further sub-divided into three areas: Sasolburg proper, Vaalpark (a more affluent cluster o ...

and Heilbron, and is home to two decommissioned power stations, ''Taaibos'' and ''Highveld'', inactive since 1994. Directly translated from

Afrikaans Afrikaans (, ) is a West Germanic language that evolved in the Dutch Cape Colony from the Dutch vernacular of Holland proper (i.e., the Hollandic dialect) used by Dutch, French, and German settlers and their enslaved people. Afrikaans gra ...

to English, the name literally means "power source".

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Populated places in the Metsimaholo Local Municipality {{FreeState-geo-stub