SOUTH AFRICA - Cities

PRETORIA

Pretoria is a city and the administrative capital of South Africa. It was also from 1860 to 1902 the capital of the southern African Republic of Transvaal . It is now located in the province of Gauteng. The name of the city was chosen as a tribute to Adries Pretorius, a native of Graaff-Reinet, a Boer leaderof the Voortreker, winner of the Battle of Blood River against the Zulus in 1838, during the Great Trek.

Pretoria has its own motto: " Pretoria is the first in excellence."

The Pretoria International Airport is the same as that of Johannesburg known as OR Tambo International airport (formerly Jan Smuts International Airport and Johannesburg International Airport ).

Another small airport is located in Midrand, and a large military air base on the outskirts of the city.

Pretoria presents a real tourist interest, it does not suffer as much of the insecurity we can find in Johannesburg and it can also be visited largely on foot to reach its main points of interest. This is often why tourists prefer to stay before embarking on the discovery of the Transvaal reserves. The best season to visit the city is the austral spring (October- November) when the jacaranda trees are in bloom, giving an indigo color to the streets of the city.

Flag of Pretoria

Johannesburg

Johannesburg is a city and a metropolis of South Africa, founded in 1887 in the Transvaal and current capital as the province of Gauteng , the richest of South Africa. The Greater Johannesburg is one of the thirty largest metropolitan areas in the world with nearly ten million inhabitants and is one of the six largest African cities. Johannesburg is sometimes wrongly referred to as the capital of South Africa.

Located on the gold deposit of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg is nevertheless considered as the economic capital of the country where the South African stock exchange is located.

It is also the site of the South African Constitutional Court.

The population of the city of Johannesburg is approximately 7.1 million inhabitants ( 3,888,180 inhabitants in the center), it is by far the most populous city in the country.

With its metropolitan area , it is the third most populous city in Africa . The city hosted the Earth Summit in 2002 ; second Earth Summit called " top of Joburg 'for associations and NGOs who held a parallel summit to the States 10 years after the" Rio Earth Summit " in 1992.

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