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The Union Buildings are the site of presidential inaugurations. The official offices of the president are on the left-hand side of the Union Buildings, and the South African national flag is flown on the left-hand side if the president is in office. [11] The Buildings are divided into three sections; the left offices, amphitheatre, and right ...
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The Nelson Mandela statue on the Union Buildings grounds, Pretoria, Gauteng, of former President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela, stands 9 metres tall. The statue was unveiled on the Day of Reconciliation (16 December) 2013, bringing the official mourning period of ten days to a close, after Mandela died on 5 December ...
The SAPS Memorial at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. The South African Police Memorial is located in the grounds of the Union Buildings in Pretoria and commemorates officers of the South African Police Service who died in the line of duty.
Pretoria Metal Pressing Pta West - WF Nkomo street (previously Church west street), Pretoria West. [ note 5 ] [ 30 ] Denel Land Systems Lyttelton - 368 Selborne Ave, Lyttelton, Centurion. 25°48′50.73″S 28°11′44.56″E / 25.8140917°S 28.1957111°E / -25.8140917; 28.1957111
Union Buildings Meintjeskop is a hill in Pretoria on which the Union Buildings ( die Uniegebou(e) in Afrikaans) were constructed. Marthinus Wessel Pretorius , later to become first president of the Transvaal Republic , was the original owner of the farm 'Elandsfontein' on which Meintjeskop stands.
It is immediately east of the Pretoria CBD.The main thoroughfare is Park Street. Landmarks on Park Street are The Pretoria Art Museum in its Mid-Century Modernist building, The Gerard Moerdyk Restaurant which serves traditional colonial African fare in a house built in 1920 by this famous architect, as well as Loftus Versfeld Stadium where local and international rugby and soccer matches are ...
The entire stretch of road from Pretoria to Hartbeespoort was previously part of the N4 national route, which connects the Mozambique Border in the east with the Botswana Border in the west. Then, the N4 was realigned on a new highway known as the Pretoria Bypass , which forms part of the Platinum Highway maintained by Bakwena, [ 7 ] in order ...