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Wepener

Wepener

Find property for sale in Wepener, a village located in the Freestate near the South African border with Lesotho. Founded in 1867 on the banks of the Jammersbergspruit, it is named after Louw Wepener, the leader of the Boers in their war with the Basotho chief Moshoeshoe I in 1865. The properties to buy here include various commercial farms and smallholdings, as well as a number of residential houses and homes for sale in and around the village itself.

Today, Wepener is a commercial centre for the surrounding agricultural district where mixed farming is practiced, generating produce related to cattle, sheep and crop farming. Those who buy property here might be interested to know more about the area’s historical significance. The southernmost of several settlements founded during the frontier wars to prevent the Basotho tribesmen from resettling the land taken in 1865, the region has been the