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The Union Buildings (Afrikaans: Uniegebou) form the official seat of the South African Government and also house the offices of the President of South Africa.The imposing buildings are located in Pretoria, atop Meintjeskop at the northern end of Arcadia, close to historic Church Square.
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.
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.
The Union Buildings, seat of South Africa's government. Union of South Africa ... Pretoria News is a daily newspaper established in Pretoria in 1898. It publishes a ...
On 9 August 2000, National Women's Day, a monument was unveiled at the Malibongwe Embokodweni, the amphitheatre at Union Buildings in Pretoria to celebrate and commemorate the event of 1956. [2]: 1, 4 It is called the Monument to the Women of South Africa, a project developed by the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology (DACST).
Union Buildings (3 P) ... Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Pretoria" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
Two replicas of the memorial were made, both in South Africa; one in the Union Buildings in Pretoria, and one in Cape Town. [1] An altar stone in the style of a Stone of Remembrance was unveiled in front of the archway in 1952, to commemorate the South African dead of World War II. [5]