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The Voortrekker Monument is located just south of Pretoria in South Africa. The granite structure is located on a hilltop, and was raised to commemorate the Voortrekkers who left the Cape Colony between 1835 and 1854. It was designed by the architect Gerard Moerdijk.
The Great Trek that took place in the first half of the 19th century saw the inward movement of Dutch settlers from the cape into the interior of South Africa. The Dutch settled the area to the north of what is today known as Pretoria in 1855. As time went by, the Dutch settlers forcefully occupied land, dispossessing the indigenous tribes in ...
The South African Children's Home (Afrikaans: Suid-Afrikaanse Weeshuis) was a building on the end of Long Street in Cape Town. It housed the only orphanage in South Africa from its foundation in 1815 until 1923. It was the home of South African College from 1829 to 1841. After the Children's Home left the building, it was changed and dismantled ...
Pretoria was founded in 1855 by Marthinus Pretorius, a leader of the Voortrekkers, who named it after his father Andries Pretorius and chose a spot on the banks of the Apies rivier (Afrikaans for "Monkeys river") to be the new capital of the South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek; ZAR).
Neoclassicism of Italian Renaissance, with Cape Dutch and Edwardian style detail. Town or city: Meintjieskop, Arcadia, Pretoria: Country: South Africa: Construction started: 1 November 1910; 114 years ago () Completed: 1913; 112 years ago () Client South Africa: Technical details; Size: 285m (length) 100m (width) [1] 60m (height) [2] Design and ...
With the school growing too small for its Pretoria city centre facilities, DSP’s current property was purchased in 1969. Construction of the new school began in 1975 and the DSP moved officially in 1977. In 1985 the DSP Kindergarten was opened, while in 2013 the school opened a crèche, for children from 3 months of age.
There are statues of Gen. Louis Botha in Cape Town, Durban, and Pretoria, all in the country of which he was the first Prime Minister, South Africa. A statue of Louis Botha on Stal Plein in front of the House of Parliament in Cape Town. Statue of Louis Botha in front of the South African Parliament building on Roeland Street, Cape Town.
Malmesbury is a town of approximately 36,000 inhabitants in the Western Cape province of South Africa, about 65 km north of Cape Town. The town is the largest in the Swartland (‘black land’) which took its name from the renosterbos ('rhino bush'), an indigenous plant that turns black in the warm, dry summers. The area is especially known ...