Church Square, Pretoria
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Church Square, originally Market Square, is the square at the historic centre of the city of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. The founder of Pretoria, Marthinus Pretorius, determined that the square b
Church Square, Pretoria
The original Market Square in 1881
The Verenigde Kerk building (1885-1905) was the third to grace the square
Boer commandos on the square during the Boer War, 1899
Paul Kruger
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Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger was a South African politician. He was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century South Africa, and State President of the South African Republ
Church Square, Pretoria
…1856 to 1905. The square's most prominent feature, since June 1954, is the statue of the late Boer leader and president of the South African Republic, Paul Kruger, at its centre. Statues of four anonymous Boer citizen-soldiers surround that of Kruger on a lower level of the plinth. Several historically and…
Voortrekkers; a 1909 depiction
Andries Pretorius, a great influence on the young Kruger
Kruger as a field cornet, photographed c. 1852
M W Pretorius, who became the Transvaal's first President in 1857