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Pretoria is named after the Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius, [8] and South Africans sometimes call it the "Jacaranda City", [9] because of the thousands of jacaranda trees planted along its streets and in its parks and gardens.
Even though Pretoria was officially renamed Tshwane, migration from the name Pretoria to Tshwane has proven to be challenging for many business organisations, media and other institutions both locally and internationally. This is why the city is still commonly referred to as Pretoria.
Sep 17, 2024 · Pretoria, city in Gauteng province and administrative capital of the Republic of South Africa. Founded in 1855 by Marthinus, son of Andries Pretorius, the Boer statesman for whom the city was named, it became the capital of the Transvaal in 1860, administrative capital of South Africa in 1910, and a city in 1931.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pretoria is now known as Tshwane which is named after; the Tswana/Ndebele Chief Tshwane. Pretoria stretches along both sides of the Apies River and extends into the Western Hills, of the Magaliesberg on the East.
Pretoria is founded and established as the capital of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, named after General Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius- a leader of the Boers who was instrumental in the creation of the Transvaal Republic. Church Square is created on the order of MW Pretorius.
Pretoria, a settlement of roughly 300 people at the time of its official founding, became the capital of the South Africa Republic (an Afrikaner settler enclave independent of the Cape Colony) in the year of 1860.
Pretoria Timeline 1800-2009. 1825. Mzilikazi's arrival in Transvaal region. 1836. Andries Potgieter's arrives in the area north of the Vaal. 1837. Mzilikazi defeated by the Voortrekkers and forced to flee across the Limpopo. 1840. First permanent White inhabitants arrive in the Pretoria area.
