Tshwane - metropolitan municipality in Gauteng, South Africa

Tshwane is the metro area that includes Pretoria, Centurion and other nearby areas.

Cities

• Irene — one-time home to the Prime Minister and General Jan Smuts, and as the site of a British concentration camp
• Pretoria — the administrative capital of South Africa offers elegant architecture, historical sites and museums, and beautiful gardens
• Centurion — home to the Waterkloof Air Force Base, and the Swartkop Air Force Base
• Pretoria-North

Other destinations

• Rietvlei Nature Reserve — a little bit of Africa left in the middle of Gauteng
• Roodeplaat Nature Reserve.
• Onderstepoort Nature Reserve (Onderstepoort Natuurreservaat).
• Mdala Nature Reserve.

Understand

Get in

Get around

See

• Tswaing Meteorite Crater, Old Soutpan Road (30 km north of Onderstepoort), +27 12 790-2302. A very well preserved meteor crater some 200 000 years old and 1km in diameter.
• South African Airforce Museum, SAAF Museum, AFB Swartkop (Take exit 6 Centurion from the N14/Ben Schoeman freeway and follow the M24/Snake Road west towards Valhala. At the intersection with the R101/Jan Smuts Drive, turn left. The museum is on your right.), +27 12 351-2153. M-F 10AM-3:30PM; Sa 10AM-12:30PM. free

Buy

• Coin World, +27 12 677-2460. Shop at the South African Mint for Kruger Rands and gold jewellery. Before going shopping, have breakfast at Café Burgundy's and watch buck and ostrich walk past.

Do

• Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, +27 12 326-0742. Operated by the CSIR as NASA Deep Space Station 51 from 1961 to 1974. Now operating as a radio astronomy observatory.
• Pretoria Skydiving Club, Pretoria, +27 12 543-0377, marius@iloveskydiving.co.za. Skydiving

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