Pretoria 05- Union Building

Pretoria

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July 12th 2010
The goal today was to go to Soweto, but after I called a tour company, I quickly realized that it was not going to happen. For a 3hr afternoon tour, they wanted to charge almost as much as the 10hr safari we went on a few days ago. I don’t think so. So we went to Pretoria instead, which is 51km up the road from where we are staying. We didn’t know what we were going to do there, but we though ... read more

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more