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The bridge was designed by the Department of Public Works of the ZAR, under the guidance of Sytze Wierda. It was built b...

The building was designed by the Department of Public Works and was completed in 1908 as the centre for the then bacteri...

The school was founded in 1897 and is the oldest surviving school in Pretoria. The original portion of the building was ...

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 23 June 1989. The Street Name has since been chang...

This site is now part of the experimental farm of the University of Pretoria. On 17 March 1920 it was the first landing ...

This property forms part of the Rooihuiskraal Battlefield. where the Battle of Rooihuiskraal took place, on 12 February ...

Click on image to enlarge Pretoria is commonly known as Jaccaranda City, because of the purple flowered bush that fluri...

The site of Freedom Park was carefully chosen, a 52 hectare undeveloped hill overlooking the city of Pretoria. It was he...

The year 1859 marks the founding of the Reformed Church, in Pretoria and its first church was built in the town in 1863....

Situated at 60 Church Street, this was the home of President Paul Kruger. It was his personal property as the ZAR did no...

The University of Pretoria Museums are celebrating another milestone, as the Old Arts Building was declared a museum in ...

These buildings were declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 2 March 1973. The farm, Welgegund was aw...

Click on image to enlarge The Old Synagogue Building in Pretoria. It is now no longer used as a Synagogue but is now a ...

Designed by Hans and Roelof  Botha, the theatre was completed in 1981. Situated on the Corner of Sisulu Street and ...

Church square is in the historic centre of Pretoria! The founder of Pretoria, Marthinus Pretorius declared the square to...

Situated at 323 Boom Street, the zoo is the largest in South Africa and rated as one of the top zoos in the world and is...

After the Jameson Raid in 1896, Pres Paul Kruger of the “Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek” decided to protect Pretoria by con...

This was the third fort erected by the German firm Krupp and designed by von Dewitz and Werner. The German forts were of...

The first prison building in Tshwane, built by Alexander Anderson at the corner of Pretorius and Paul Kruger streets, ha...

Klapperkop offers visitors panoramic views of Pretoria in all directions. Not only is it fast becoming a popular jogging...

The Raadsaal Building is located on the South-Western corner of Church Square and forms an important part of the Histori...

George Heys, a young man from Durban, made his fortune in the diamond rush in Kimberley by establishing a successful coa...

The first annexation of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek by Sir Theophilus Shepstone in 1877 led to the establishment of ...

The ‘Nederduitsch Hervormde' congregation was founded on 8 and 9 September 1855 in Pretoria. It was one of the...

Opened on 2 November 1900, the Irene Concentration Camp was built with the intention that it would be one of the camps t...

The Wonderboom Nature Reserve and is Home to a 1000 Year Old Fig Tree, or Ficus Salicifolia, known as the 'Wonderboom' [...

This fort was built by the firm Schneider & Co, which was connected to the French firm, Le Creusot. Military enginee...

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 29 June 1938. After the Jameson Raid in 1896, Presiden...

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 10 December 1965. The British Army approached Pretoria ...

Gustav Preller was a well-known journalist and historian who championed the cause of the Afrikaans language. He occupied...

Kathy Munro Wednesday, July 26, 2017 -   On Saturday 22nd July, a Johannesburg Heritage Foundation Blue Plaque w...

George Harrison and the history of Johannesburg are closely bound together: it was he who first found gold in 1886, a di...

In 1886 Hans Sauer, who combined a medical practice with prospecting on Cecil Rhodes’s behalf, was guided from Ferreira’...

We have no recorded evidence of how the Iron Age community on Melville Koppies was affected, but it was almost certainly...

Click on image to enlarge It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 22 February 1944. 12TH FEBR...

The Confidence Reef was discovered by the Struben brothers on 18 September 1884. This sparked off a flood of prospectors...

Following the invasion of the ZAR in January 1896 by a troop of cavalry led by Dr Leander Jameson, the Executive Committ...

The Museum of Military History offers adults a fascinating look at all forms of war vehicles and weapons. And it will ca...

The story the Kliptown Open Air Museum tells of the thousands of people who contributed to the drafting of the Freedom C...

Museum Africa, Johannesburg's major history and cultural history museum, is housed in the Newtown Cultural Precinct's ol...