The major sight in Pretoria is the Voortrekker Monument on a hill overlooking the city. It was built in 1937-1949 to commemorate the Voortrekkers who left the Cape Colony between 1835 and 1854 to settle the interior of South Africa and escape British rule. It is something like a large temple, and I suppose that is what it was to the Afrikaners. The inside space is surrounded by a 27-panel marble frieze depicting the Great Trek. A cenotaph commemorates those who lost their lives during the Great Trek and settlement of the Boer republics. Another frieze on the wall outside depicts a covered wagon train. Pretoria is the administrative capital of South Africa, the seat of the President and the executive departments. (Bloemfontein is the judicial capital and Cape Town is the legislative capital.) The Union
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