Although most Orange Free-State towns and black residential areas in South Africa have indigenous names - frequently taken from local topographic features -, European names of towns have no African equivalents, but become phonetically adapted to the indigenous system. Indigenous names are classified by their reference into six main categories: natural phenomena, animals, birds, proper names, events, and recent, miscellaneous names. These native names are largely metaphorical and self-evident, many being in locative or imperative form. (Copyright 1996, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.) (LLBA 1996, vol. 30, n. 5)