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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, Winterveld, Hammanskraal, Temba, Crocodile River and ...
The city is home to the Tshwane Suns who compete in South Africa's highest basketball division, the Basketball National League. [15] [16] There are two Premier Soccer League teams, Mamelodi Sundowns and Supersport United. Pretoria University, known as Tuks plays in the second-tier league. Tshwane is also home to the Blue Bulls rugby team.
Waterkloof Ridge (Afrikaans: "Waterkloofrif") is a residential suburb of the city of Pretoria, South Africa.Originally called Highlands - where so called Coloureds, Blacks & some Indians lived & schooled - before they were displaced to 'separate development areas' as per the South African National Party Apartheid system, Waterkloof is located to the south of Waterkloof in a leafy area that ...
The Rietvlei dam is an earth-fill type dam and is one of a number of dams supplying water to the Pretoria region of South Africa. It supplies around 41 million liters of drinking water daily, [1] about 5.9% of the water requirement of Pretoria. [4] The dam mainly serves for municipal and industrial use. Its hazard potential has been ranked high ...
City of Tshwane: Main Place: Pretoria: Area [1] ... Mayville is a central-western suburb of Pretoria, South Africa ... It is also part of the so-called "Moot" community.
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.
City of Tshwane: Main Place: Pretoria: Area • Land: 2.62 km 2 (1.01 sq mi) ... Queenswood is a suburb in the northeast of Pretoria in Gauteng, South Africa. [1]
It was one of the first community broadcasters in South Africa to be given an FM licence. It is known for contemporary music and is operated by UP's student base. Radio Pretoria is a community-based radio station in Pretoria, South Africa, whose programmes are aimed at Afrikaners. It broadcasts 24 hours a day in stereo on 104.2 FM in the ...