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.

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

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.

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.

Pretoria is named after Andries Pretorius.

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.

" 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.