Talk:Free State

The article has: "the people here still live up to the voortrekker traditions of braaing and the Afrikaaner lifestyle." I think almost any English speaker should understand "Afrikaaner", though I'm not certain all would. "voortrekker" I can guess, but it's not a word I've ever seen before. "Braaing" has me completely baffled. I'm a native English speaker; if I'm baffled here, likely second language readers are even more confused.

Could we have a bit more explanation, please? (WT-en) Pashley 07:11, 19 October 2009 (EDT)

Here's another native speaker that doesn't know braaing or voortrekker. (WT-en) Texugo 08:37, 19 October 2009 (EDT)

Well I know Voortrekker is the name of the early Dutch colonial settlers from my old history classes, Fore trekkers quite literally I think, but Braaing is also lost on me, especially after looking it up (roasting!?) --(WT-en) Stefan (sertmann) ^Talk 08:49, 19 October 2009 (EDT)

Regions

The five regional articles for the province collectively have only 10 articles linked from them, so two regions have one article each, two regions have two articles, and one region has three articles. The region articles have no text in them.

It would be easier for the traveller is the region articles were eliminated, and consolidated with the province article so they don't have to click through the empty region articles.

Wikivoyage:Geographical hierarchy says: "Importantly, we only add a level of regions when there is too much content in the existing breakdown." These region articles were created in 2007, and no substantive content has been added in the 14 years since.

Any objections? The region articles could be restored later if the creation of new articles warrants it. Ground Zero (talk) 12:40, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Suspect typo

from Wikivoyage:Correct typos in one click braaing->baaing? (omit) context: ~~~ up to the Voortrekker traditions of braaing
braaing . The rich soil and pleasant ~~~