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Pretoria North (Afrikaans: Pretoria-Noord) is a suburb of the city of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, with a population of 16,972 people according to the 2011 census. [1] History. Pretoria North was first settled in 1878 by a pioneer column of Afrikaner farmers who started farming alongside the passing Apies River. The Area became a stopping ...
This is a list of suburbs in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, which includes the city of Pretoria and its surrounding suburbs and exurbs.Pretoria/Tshwane is divided into 7 regions [1] namely Pretoria North, Far North, Central Western, Southern, Pretoria Far East, Eastern, Bronkhorstspruit. [2]
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).
Map of the municipalities in Gauteng. Gauteng province of South Africa is divided, ... Pretoria: 6,298 3,275,152 520.0 Sedibeng District Municipality: DC42 Vereeniging:
Pretoria East was a constituency in the Transvaal Province of South Africa, which existed from 1910 to 1966 and again from 1974 to 1994. It covered the eastern parts of Pretoria , the administrative capital of South Africa, and changed its makeup several times over the course of its existence.
Magalieskruin is a suburb located in the northern part of Pretoria. The suburb is mostly located on the Magaliesberg and entirely south of Sefako Makgato Drive ( R513 ). [ 1 ] It is bordered by Montana Park to the east and Wonderboom to the west.
On January 19, 1943, the Junior Hoërskool Pretoria-Noord seceded from Pretoria North Parallel and the standard six to eight students went over to House Zealand. The construction of the school started in 1944 and was completed in 1946. Pretoria North High School was officially founded in 1951. [3] [4]
Wonderboom is a northern residential suburb of Pretoria, South Africa.The suburb includes the Wonderboom Nature Reserve site of the famous Wonderboom [2] (Afrikaans for "Marvel tree" or "Wonder tree"), on the northern slopes of the Magaliesberg mountains, just east of the Apies River.