Prehistory of the Pretoria area
… Bechuanaland. Mzilikazi made Pretoria his home by building two military kraals on the Apies River: "enDinaneni" was … Andries Pretorius, Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, purchased two farms, Elandspoort and Koedoespoort, with the intention … be the centre of the new state. On November 1853, the two farms were declared a town, which came to be known as …