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Pretoria Sotho (called Sepitori by its speakers) [34] is the urban lingua franca of Pretoria and the Tshwane metropolitan area in South Africa. It is a combination of Tswana and Northern Sotho (Pedi) , with influences from Tsotsitaal and other black South African languages.
Afrikaners in Pretoria. This group consists predominantly of Dutch, German, French Huguenot, English, Portuguese and other European descendants. [17] [23] Culturally and linguistically, they are divided into Afrikaans-speaking and English-speaking groups.
The building was built in 1940 and was designed by Gerard Moerdijk, a South African architect, to be the official residence in Pretoria of the Prime Minister of the time, General Jan Smuts. Since its creation, Mahlamba Ndlopfu has also hosted official visits from foreign heads of state, such as visits by François Mitterrand , the President of ...
Both Moot and Pretoria West are listed separately below. The City of Tshwane is the second largest municipality in Gauteng and is among the six biggest metropolitan municipalities in South Africa. The following towns and townships form part of the Municipality's area: Pretoria, Centurion, Akasia, Soshanguve, Mabopane, Atteridgeville, Ga-Rankuwa ...
Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius (27 November 1798 – 23 July 1853) was a leader of the Boers who was instrumental in the creation of the South African Republic, as well as the earlier but short-lived Natalia Republic, in present-day South Africa.
Montana Park is a residential suburb of Pretoria in Gauteng, South Africa. It is situated to the north-east of the Pretoria CBD. Over the recent years (~2005 to 2015), Montana has experienced a considerable influx of Africans. As of November 2019, the official language in the area can be said to be English, followed by both Setswana and Afrikaans.
The crater and reserve are situated on a base of ancient granite of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, some 40 km to the north-northwest of Pretoria (just north of Soshanguve). [1] This astrobleme is 1.13 km in diameter [ 1 ] and 100 m deep [ 2 ] and its age is estimated to be 220,000 ± 52,000 years ( Pleistocene ). [ 3 ]
Older aerial photographs show remains of circular type dwellings to the west of Laudium, built by its earliest inhabitants. The original name for Laudium was Claudius, and it was initially planned as a white area, named after Claudius Marais de Vries who owned a farm called Mooiplats and was a former mayor of Pretoria.