Welcome to Free State!
The Free State Province, "South Africa's breadbasket", sits in the heartland of the Karoo semi-desert. The Free State (Afrikaans: Vrystaat, Sotho: Freistata, Xhosa: iFreyistata, Tswana: Foreistata, Zulu: iFuleyisitata, before 1995, the Orange Free State) is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Boer republic called the Orange Free State and later Orange Free State Province.