* 1902 – Second Boer War: Harry ' Breaker ' Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.

Negotiations between the parties officially began on July 25 and are currently proceeding with very few details released from the negotiation teams in Pretoria, as coverage by the media is barred from the premises where the negotiations are taking place.

* 1905 – The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing, is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.

Robinson is an is Extraordinary Professor in the Centre for Human Rights and the Centre for the Study of AIDS at the University of Pretoria.

Pretoria is a city in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa.

Pretoria is contained within the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality as one of several constituent former administrations ( among which also Centurion and Soshanguve ).

Pretoria itself is sometimes referred to as " Tshwane " due to a long-running and controversial proposed change of name, which has yet to be decided, as of 2012.

Pretoria in South Africa is popularly known as The Jacaranda City due to the thousands of Jacaranda trees planted in its streets, parks and gardens.

Pretoria is " the capital of Apartheid South Africa ".

Pretoria is situated approximately north of Johannesburg in the north-east of South Africa, in a transitional belt between the plateau of the Highveld to the south and the lower-lying Bushveld to the north.

This is the first stage of a standard gauge passenger line connecting Johannesburg, Pretoria and ORTIA.

Seymour Papert ( born February 29, 1928 in Pretoria, South Africa ) is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator.

* January 26 – The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine.

* August 3 – The Pretoria Convention peace treaty is signed, officially ending the war between the Boers and Britain.

* 3 August 1881: The Pretoria Convention peace treaty is signed, officially ending the war between the Boers and Britain.

Bloemfontein (, ; Dutch for " fountain of flowers " – lit., " blooms ") is the capital city of the Free State Province of South Africa ; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals – the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital.

Situated just south of the Botswana border, the town is connected by main roads to South Africa's national capital of Pretoria in the east and to Gaborone, the capital of Botswana, in the north.

* South Africa: The administrative capital is Pretoria, the legislative capital is Cape Town, and the judicial capital is Bloemfontein.

A cenotaph is the focal point of the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, South Africa.

Situated in the heart of the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province in South Africa, with only 1. 4 % of the land area, but it is highly urbanised, containing the cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria.

Pretoria itself was founded in 1855 by Marthinus Pretorius, a leader of the Voortrekkers, who named it after his father Andries Pretorius.

Pretoria, newly founded, and named in honour of the elder Pretorius, was made the seat of government and capital of the country.

Locations named after Valhalla exist in North America ( including Valhalla, New York, Valhalla Centre, Alberta, Walhalla, Michigan, Walhalla, North Dakota, Walhalla, South Carolina, and Walhalla, Texas ), Australia ( Walhalla, Victoria ), and South Africa ( Valhalla, Pretoria ), as well as Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky.

Pretoria was named after the Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius.

" In 1855, a new district and a new town were formed out of the Potchefstroom and Rustenburg districts by his son, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, who named them Pretoria in honour of the late commandant-general.

The original name for Laudium was Claudius, ( originally reserved for White residents ), named after Claudius Marais de Vries who owned a farm called Mooiplats and was a former mayor of Pretoria.

The Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary in Pretoria is named in his honour.

Although the treaty is named after the town of Vereeniging in Transvaal, where the peace negotiations took place, the document was actually signed at Melrose House in Pretoria.

* Although named after Vereeniging, the Treaty of Vereeniging was actually signed at Melrose House, Pretoria.

One of the more compelling arguments is a reference to and accurate description of a ship called the " Pretoria " ( later named the " Gunung Djati "), which the author places in Hel on March 28 or 29th of 1945 and is verifiable through open sources.

* Burgers Park, a park in central Pretoria, South Africa named for President T. F.

* Andries Pretorius, Born Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius ( 27 November 1798 – 23 July 1853 ) Great Trek Leader after whom Pretoria was named farmed in the district before the Great Trek.

The Pretoria suburb of Pierre van Ryneveld was named in his honour and the airport just north of Upington in the Northern Cape is also named after van Ryneveld.

Robert Owen Loftus Versfeld, after which the stadium in Pretoria is named, was a lifetime member of the Transvaal Rugby Football Union.

The combined school was now named Pretoria High School for Boys-Pretoria Hogere school voor Jongens.

The stadium was named after Robert Owen Loftus Versfeld, the founder of organized sports in Pretoria.

It is named after the original farm that stood there when Pretoria was founded in the 19th Century.

He died shortly after arrival at the Pretoria prison, on 12 September.

* September 12 – South African activist Steve Biko dies after suffering a massive head injury in police custody in Pretoria, South Africa.

On 29 May 1950, a week after the public celebration of his eightieth birthday in Johannesburg and Pretoria, he suffered a coronary thrombosis.

Johannesburg was occupied on 31 May, and in June, during the advance on Pretoria, Allenby engaged a party of Boers at Kalkheuvel Pass after the Cavalry Division was ambushed.

Since then, the top two rankings changed ultimately remaining with the All Blacks since November 2009 when the Boks lost to France on their end-of-year tour and most recently regained second position after defeating Australia in Pretoria.

Melrose House gained fame during the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ) when Lord Roberts requisitioned it as the headquarters for the British forces after Pretoria was invaded in June 1900.

Pretoria has the second largest number of embassies in the world, after Washington, D. C., most of which are located in or near Arcadia.

Shortly after these decisions, an Australian national newspaper compared the situation to the death of African aboriginal Steve Biko in Pretoria prison, South Africa in 1977.

Centurion ( previously known as Verwoerdburg, after Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd ) is an area with 279, 430 inhabitants in Gauteng Province of South Africa, located between Pretoria and Midrand ( Johannesburg ).

* April 20 – South African Airways Flight 228, the Boeing 707-344C Pretoria, crashes just after takeoff from J. G. Strijdom International Airport in Windhoek, South-West Africa ( now Namibia ), killing 123 of the 128 people on board.

He was transported naked and manacled for 740 miles ( 1200 km ) in the back of a police van to Pretoria, and died shortly after arriving at the police hospital there.

On 30 July 2002 Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a peace deal known as the Pretoria Accord after five days of talks in Pretoria, South Africa.

Terre ' Blanche was widely ridiculed after he was filmed falling off his horse during a parade in Pretoria.

The north-south line opened from Pretoria to Rosebank in August 2011 ; after delays caused by excessive water seepage in a major tunnel, the Rosebank – Johannesburg section opened in July 2012.

The Pretoria Pit Disaster was the third worst in British mining history, after the 1866 Barnsley Oaks Disaster in Yorkshire, and the 1913 Senghenydd Colliery Disaster in Glamorgan.

In Primus ' early teenage years he played for his local Sunday league football club, Pretoria, based in Canning Town after being introduced by a school friend.

His middle name was given after the South African city of Pretoria, where British troops were fighting the Boer War at the time of his birth.