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Cricket is the most popular sport in Centurion. It has hosted many cricket tournaments like 2003 Cricket World Cup, 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup, 2007 ICC World Twenty20, 2009 IPL and 2009 ICC Champions Trophy. Boxing Day Test are played at starting from 2013/14 season.
Centurion Park is a cricket ground in Centurion in South Africa. It is also known as SuperSport Park since television company SuperSport bought shares in the stadium. The capacity of the ground is 22,000.
In common with other Gautrain stations, Centurion station acts as the focal point of transit-oriented development.The most prominent of the initiatives near the station is the Centurion Symbio-City development, which aims at developing the highest skyscraper in Africa in the middle of Centurion Lake.
Irene was the site of one of the more than forty concentration camps where the British imprisoned the Boer (Afrikaner) women and children, whose homes had been destroyed as part of the British Army's 'scorched earth' policy during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). [2] More than 1,200 people, most of them children, died at the Irene Camp.
As the name suggests, Midrand lies centrally within the Gauteng province positioned halfway between Johannesburg to the south (27 km) and Pretoria to the north (30 km) and it forms the northernmost part of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, bordering two other metropolitan municipalities within Gauteng namely the City of Tshwane to the north and the City of Ekurhuleni to the east.
In the Roman army during classical antiquity, a centurion (/ s ɛ n ˈ tj ʊər i ə n /; Latin: centurio [kɛn̪ˈt̪ʊrioː], pl. centuriones ; Ancient Greek : κεντυρίων , romanized : kentyríōn , or Ancient Greek: ἑκατόνταρχος , romanized: hekatóntarkhos ), was a commander, nominally of a century ( Latin : centuria ...
Pages in category "Suburbs of Centurion, Gauteng" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
A centurion was a professional officer of the Roman army. ... Centurion (tree), the tallest eucalyptus in the world, 99.6 metres high; Sport. Centurion ...