Kestell

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Kestell
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Coordinates: 28°19′S 28°42′E / 28.317°S 28.700°E / -28.317; 28.700
Country	South Africa
Province	Free State
District	Thabo Mofutsanyana
Municipality	Maluti a Phofung
Area [1]
• Total	12.6 km2 (4.9 sq mi)
Elevation	1,700 m (5,600 ft)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	8,269
• Density	660/km2 (1,700/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	92.8%
• Coloured	0.3%
• Indian/Asian	0.4%
• White	6.4%
• Other	0.1%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Sotho	80.5%
• Zulu	7.5%
• Afrikaans	6.8%
• English	2.5%
• Other	2.6%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Area code	058

Kestell is a small maize farming town in the Free State province of South Africa.

Town 46 km west of Harrismith and 45 kilometres (28 mi) east of Bethlehem. The new village was laid out in 1905 on the farms Mooifontein and Driekuil, acquired from Adriaan and Johannes Bezuidenhout. It became a municipality in 1906.