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.

Several giant trees that occur in and around Alldays are another noteworthy feature of the area: a baobab at Bakleikraal, 21 m in circumference ; a wild fig in Alldays itself, larger than the famous Wonder Tree in Pretoria ; and a nyala tree that covers a surface of 100 m²

Under the Global and All-Inclusive Agreement, signed on 17 December 2002, in Pretoria, there was to be one President and four Vice-Presidents, one from the government, one from the Rally for Congolese Democracy, one from the MLC, and one from civil society.

Bosman was sentenced to death for the crime and was sent to Death row at the Pretoria Central Prison.

A partial cranium and mandible of Paranthropus robustus was discovered in 1938 by a schoolboy, Gert Terblanche, at Kromdraai B ( 70 km south west of Pretoria ) in South Africa.

The Southern Transvaal Ndebele occupied the river valley, which was to become the location of the city of Pretoria, by around 1600.

The peace treaty which ended the war was signed in Pretoria on 3 August 1881 at the Pretoria Convention.

During the war, Winston Churchill was imprisoned in the Staats Model School in Pretoria but escaped to Mozambique.

The city surrendered to British forces under Frederick Roberts on 5 June 1900 and the conflict was ended in Pretoria with the signing of the Peace of Vereeniging on 31 May 1902.

After the creation of new municipal structures across South Africa in 2000, the name Tshwane was adopted for the Metropolitan Municipality that includes Pretoria and surrounding towns.

However, Pretoria's political reputation was changed with the inauguration of Nelson Mandela on the 10th May 1994 as the country's first non-apartheid President at the Union Buildings close to Pretoria CBD.

In 1994 Peter Holmes Maluleka was elected as transitional mayor of Pretoria, until the first democratic election held later that year, making him the first black mayor of this capital of South Africa.

Maluleka later became the chairman of the Greater Pretoria Metropolitan City Council ( later City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality ), then was elected Speaker of the Tshwane Metro Council and in 2004 was chosen to be a member of the South African Parliament for the Soshanguve constituency.

Born Robert Newton Calvert in Pretoria, South Africa, Calvert's parents moved to England when he was two years of age ; he attended school in London and Margate.

The Pretoria Academic Hospital was renamed the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in 2008.

The capital was established at Pretoria ( founded 1855 ), though for a brief period Potchefstroom served as the seat of government.

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

Pretoria was named after the Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius.

After Natal and the Cape Colony were secure, the British were able to invade the Transvaal, and the republic's capital, Pretoria, was ultimately captured in June 1900.

However, when, in 1886, a major gold field was discovered at an outcrop on a large ridge some sixty kilometres south of the Boer capital at Pretoria, it reignited British imperial interests.

One Reform Committee member, Frederick Gray, had committed suicide while in Pretoria gaol, on 16 May, and his death was a factor in softening the Transvaal government's attitude to the remaining prisoners.

Like Buller, Roberts first intended to attack directly along the Cape Town – Pretoria railway but, again like Buller, was forced to relieve the beleaguered garrisons.

He was forced to halt again at Kroonstad for 10 days, due once again to the collapse of his medical and supply systems, but finally captured Johannesburg on 31 May and the capital of the Transvaal, Pretoria, on 5 June.

* 1949 – The University of Pretoria in South Africa founded the oldest business school in Africa and was the first university to offer an MBA outside of North America.

On October 11, 1999, the African Renaissance Institute ( ARI ) was founded at an inaugural meeting in Pretoria.

* 23 April-The Afrikaans-German Culture Union ( Afrikaanse-Deutsche Kultuurgemeinschaft-ADK ) is founded on Pretoria

It was renamed Pretoria High School and became the first of the so-called " Milner " schools in the Transvaal, opening on 3 June 1901 with Charles Hope-who also founded Potchefstroom Boys High as headmaster.

It was renamed Pretoria High School and became the first of the so-called " Milner " schools in the Transvaal, opening on 3 June 1901 with Charles Hope, who also founded Potchefstroom Boys High, as headmaster.

The school was founded in 1990 by the Pretoria North Muslim Educational Institute.

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

" 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.

They contend that the Boers of the South African Republic ( ZAR ) and Orange Free State republics were recognized as a separate people or cultural group under international law by the Sand River Convention ( which created the South African Republic in 1852 ), the Bloemfontein Convention ( which created the Orange Free State Republic in 1854 ), the Pretoria Convention ( which re-established the independence of the South African Republic 1881 ), the London Convention ( which granted the full independence to the South African Republic in 1884 ) and the Vereeniging Peace Treaty, which formally ended the Second Anglo-Boer War on 31 May 1902.

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.

The Voortrekkers are commemorated by the Voortrekker Monument located on Monument Hill overlooking Pretoria, the erstwhile capital of the South African Republic and the current and historic administrative capital of the Republic of South Africa.

In 1950, the first MBA degrees awarded outside the United States were by the Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario in Canada, followed in 1951 with the degree awarded by the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

Receiving a salary from and provided staff by the South African government, Aristide lived with his family in a government villa in Pretoria.

As of 27 May 2010 the world's best for this event was 30. 85 seconds, set by Michael Johnson in Pretoria in 2000.

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.

Although Jameson's men had cut the telegraph wires to Cape Town, they had failed to cut the telegraph wires to Pretoria ( cutting a fence by mistake ).

Accordingly news of his incursion quickly reached Pretoria and Jameson's armed column was tracked by Transvaal forces from the moment that it crossed the border.

In 1900 during the Second Boer War, by a proclamation issued at Pretoria ( June 19 ), Lord Roberts adopted the plan for a similar reason, but shortly afterwards ( July 29 ) it was abandoned ( see The Times History of the War in S. Africa, iv.

This was the so-called " D ' Oliveira affair ", in which the inclusion of a non-white player in the England team to tour South Africa led to the cancellation of the tour by the apartheid regime in Pretoria.

However, the homelands were only kept afloat by massive subsidies from the South African government ; for instance, by 1985 in Transkei, 85 % of the homeland's income came from direct transfer payments from Pretoria.

Johannesburg developed an extreme metal scene in1992 with rising grindcore / death metal act Retribution Denied, Boksburg based macabre / death metal act Debauchery followed by Pretoria doom metal band Funeral, Christian metal act Abhorrence closely followed by Insurrection, Metalmorphosis, Sacrifist and Agro the latter two acts of whom still perform today.

As a pro he had put together a 20-0 record and won the vacant WBA title by decisioning South African Gerrie Coetzee over fifteen rounds, in front of 86, 000 hostile fans in Pretoria, South Africa.

Verwoerd's funeral, attended by a quarter of a million people, was held in Pretoria on 10 September 1966.

This mainly Irish regiment was marching westward toward Pretoria, led by Lieutenant-Colonel Anstruther, when halted by a Boer commando group.

In the final peace treaty, the Pretoria Convention, negotiated by a three-man Royal Commission, the British agreed to complete Boer self-government in the Transvaal under British suzerainty, the Boers accepting the Queen's nominal rule and British control over external relations, African affairs and native districts.

The Pretoria Convention was signed on 3 August 1881 and ratified on 25 October 1881 by the Transvaal Volksraad ( parliament ).