[
US
/pɹiˈtɔɹiə/
]
NOUN
- city in the Transvaal; the seat of the executive branch of the government of South Africa
How To Use Pretoria In A Sentence
- He said the AWB was "regrouping" and was expected to have a mass meeting on Church Square in Pretoria in December. ANC Daily News Briefing
- The court-martialling and prompt execution at Pretoria of the rebel leader, Captain Fourie, shows what the Union Government is minded to do _pour décourager les autres_. The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914
- There were also differences because the alternative media were prepared to defy press restrictions while the mainstream newspapers, despite their power, continued to support shameful special agreements with the South African police, the SADF, the South African Department of Prisons - a regime of rigorous self censorship that protected the Pretoria Government against regelation of its worst excesses. Address by Comrade President Nelson R Mandela to the International Federation of Newspaper Publishers Conference
- Pretoria gathered on Wednesday to protest against what they called the clamping down on union activities by senior education officials, SABC radio news reported. ANC Daily News Briefing
- These factors, as well as its relatively close location to the large metropolitan areas of Pretoria and Johannesburg, ensured that Sun City soon became a popular holiday and weekend destination.
- The military roads were under the pretors, and were called pretorian roads; and the public roads for travel and commercial traffic were under the consuls, and were called consular roads. The Road and the Roadside
- The sub-humid warm temperate mountain bushveld plant communities of the Pretoria-Witbank-Heidelberg area. Highveld grasslands
- Their main contact on New Amazonia is Lesa Pretoria, a master duelist with a few reservations about her own female-centric society. Free Fiction February - "Lucifugous" by Elizabeth Bear
- Mantashe had displayed "no particular reaction" during the telephone conversation, but had been "appreciative" that he had called, Mboweni told reporters in Pretoria on Tuesday. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Hassam Omar, a Somali refugee living in Pretoria, was attacked during the spate of xenophobic violence that rocked South Africa in 2008.