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Pretoria

[pri-tawr-ee-uh, -tohr-]

noun

  1. a city in and the administrative capital of the Republic of South Africa, in the NE part: also the capital of Transvaal.



Pretoria

/ prɪˈtɔːrɪə /

noun

  1. Also called: Tshwanea city in N South Africa, the administrative capital of South Africa; formerly capital of Transvaal province: two universities (1873, 1930); large steelworks. Pop: 525 384 (2001)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Pretoria

  1. Administrative capital of South Africa. (See also Cape Town.)

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The accused appeared in a magistrate's court in the capital city Pretoria on Tuesday and were granted bail.

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The Pretoria high court ruled in favour of the Zambian state, which had previously applied to block the family's plans to bury him privately in South Africa, where he died in June.

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In the early 1970s, when Davidtz was eight years old, she moved from America with her South African parents to Pretoria, in the midst of that country’s apartheid system.

On the souring of relations between Pretoria and Washington, he said South Africa hoped to have a "frank, constructive discussion about them".

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The party runs Tigray's interim administration which was established in 2023 as part of the peace deal, known as the Pretoria peace agreement.

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