Wesselsbron is a small maize farming town 75 kilometres south of Bothaville in Free State province of South Africa. Town 32 km east of Hoopstad and 48 km north-west of Welkom. It was laid out in 1920 and became a municipality in 1936. Named after Commandant who was in command of the Siege of Kimberley from 13 October 1899to 12 February 1900. Bron is Afrikaans for ‘source’, ‘spring’.