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Heidelberg is a town with 35,500 inhabitants in the Gauteng province of South Africa, some 50 kilometres south-east of Johannesburg, close to the Mpumalanga border. It sits at the eastern end of the Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve , next to the N3 highway connecting Johannesburg and Durban .
Heidelberg is the seat of the municipality. During the first war of independence, Heidelberg served as capital of the South African Republic, from 1880 to 1883. Lesedi is a Sesotho word meaning "light". The name was decided upon because the municipality represents the light of the area. [4]
Heidelberg Commando was a light infantry regiment of the South African Army. It formed part of the South African Army Infantry Formation as well as the South African Territorial Reserve. [ citation needed ]
Dutch Reformed Church, H F Verwoerd Street, Heidelberg The D.R. Church in Heidelberg, situated in HF Verwoerd Street, is one of the finest examples in Gauteng of a church built of stone. It is visible from all sides and is indeed a worthy monument. The corner-stone of the church was laid on 12 April 1890, Type of site: Church.
Center for Urban History of East Central Europe; Centre for Contemporary History; Study and Documentation Centre for War and Contemporary Society; Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds; Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Collegium Carolinum (1956) Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History
Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve is a protected area which encompasses most of the Suikerbosrand Range, South Africa. [1] It is one of Gauteng's most frequented ecotourism locations, located approximately 50 kilometres south-east of Johannesburg, just west of the town of Heidelberg in the upper catchment of the Klip and Suikerbosrand rivers.
Tshwane University of Technology (TUT; Afrikaans: Tshwane-Universiteit vir Tegnologie) is a higher education institution in South Africa that came into being through a merger of three technikons — Technikon Northern Gauteng, Technikon North-West and Technikon Pretoria.
After Union in 1910, Chapter IV of the South Africa Defence Act, 1912, made provision for the South African Military College. In the Annual Reports of the Department of Defence and Executive Commands for the year ended 30 June 1913, the College was referred to as "an institution or group of institutions, known as the South African Military Schools."