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The garden is wedged between Pretoria Road and Cussonia Avenue in Brummeria, in eastern Pretoria, Gauteng, and flanks a central rocky ridge that runs from east to west. The 76 hectares (0.76 km 2 ) garden was established in 1946, and of late hosts the headquarters of the South African National Biodiversity Institute.
Klapperkop Nature Reserve is a nature reserve of some 460 ha in Pretoria, Gauteng, which was established in 1898. It is managed by the Department of Nature Conservation. Fort Klapperkop, completed in 1897, is situated inside the reserve.
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. It is a creole language that developed in the city during the years of ...
The latter is reached by following the steep, paved walkway that leads from the picnic area to the summit. The vicinity of the fort ruins also afford sweeping views of the city, whose council declared the area around the Wonderboom and both banks of the Apies River a reserve on 28 December 1949.
SANBI was established on 1 September 2004 in terms of the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, No 10 of 2004. [3] Previously, in 1989, the autonomous statutory National Botanical Institute (NBI) had been formed from the National Botanic Gardens and the Botanical Research Institute, which had been founded in the early 20th century to study and conserve the South African flora.
The amusement park Gold Reef City is situated in Gauteng, [84] as is the Johannesburg Zoo [85] and the Pretoria Zoo. [86] Botanical gardens in the province include the Pretoria and Walter Sisulu national botanical gardens maintained by the South African National Botanical Institute as well as the Johannesburg and Manie van der Schijff botanical ...
Witwatersrand and the Rand are names for the conurbation that developed along the range, although the terms are falling into disuse [citation needed] and Witwatersrand was the "W" in PWV (Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging), the initial name of Gauteng province.
The lower part of the park which is flat, the middle part which hosts the picnic and braai area and the Tokai Arboretum, and the upper part, which is steep and mountainous. Lower Tokai Park has numerous trails through the Cape Flats Sand Fynbos , the Restoration Trail, the Perimeter Trail and the Information Deck.