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A map of Gauteng, showing the West Rand District Municipality. The West Rand [1] is the urban western part of the Witwatersrand that is functionally merged with the Johannesburg conurbation. This area became settled by Europeans after a gold-bearing reef discovered in 1886 and sparked the gold rush that gave rise to the establishment of ...
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 ...
Both Moot and Pretoria West are listed separately below. The City of Tshwane is the second largest municipality in Gauteng and is among the six biggest metropolitan municipalities in South Africa. The following towns and townships form part of the Municipality's area: Pretoria, Centurion, Akasia, Soshanguve, Mabopane, Atteridgeville, Ga-Rankuwa ...
The N4 road westbound near Middelburg, Mpumalanga The N4 road eastbound at the interchange with the R556 road near Modderspruit in North West.. The N4 is a national route in South Africa that runs from Skilpadshek on the Botswana border, past Rustenburg, Pretoria, eMalahleni and Mbombela, to Komatipoort on the Mozambique border.
The road continues south-east, meeting the north-western terminus of the R34, before turning north-east to head to Delareyville. Just outside the town, the R377 intersects from the west, while the N14 enters the town from the west. It meets the R507 and heads north through the town as its main road (Generaal Delarey Street). Leaving north-east ...
The streets of the suburb are numerical, with the suffix of "street" heading west to east and "avenue" south to north. The only exceptions to this are Hope Road and Grove Road, bordering the suburb to the south. Louis Botha Avenue, initially served as the only single, direct road between the Johannesburg CBD and Pretoria. It was principally the ...
Sunnyside is one of the oldest suburbs of the city of Pretoria, South Africa. The well-established area is situated east of Nelson Mandela drive (and the Apies River ), adjacent to Pretoria Central .
The Von Wielligh and Retief Streets in Pretoria West are named after her husband. [6] Originally a European settlement it was laid out in 1896 on what had been the Rietfontein farm. [2] Von Wielligh had bought it in 1885 and called it Villieria farm, cultivating bees there from 1894 to 1895, but by 1895 had lost his job and was heavily in debt.