Cullinan is a small town in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It is located 30 km (19 mi) east of the city of Pretoria along the diamond route and is heavily reliant on tourism and the mine that dominates the skyline. The town is named after diamond magnate Sir Thomas Cullinan History. In 1898 Sir Thomas ...

This is a list of cities and towns in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Most towns are no longer separate municipalities, their local governments having been merged into larger structures ... Cullinan: City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality: Ekangala: City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality: Hammanskraal: City of Tshwane Metropolitan ...

Gauteng (/ x aʊ ˈ t ɛ ŋ / khow-TENG) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.The name in Sotho-Tswana languages means 'place of gold'.. Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa.Although Gauteng accounts for only 1.5% of the country's land area, it is home to more than a quarter of its population (26%). ...

The Premier Mine is an underground diamond mine owned by Petra Diamonds in the town of Cullinan, 40 kilometres (25 mi) east of Pretoria, Gauteng Province, South Africa.Established in 1902, it was renamed the Cullinan Diamond Mine in November 2003 in celebration of its centenary. The mine is a carrot-shaped volcanic pipe and has a surface area of 32 hectares …

De Cullinan is de grootste ongeslepen diamant die tot nu toe op aarde is gevonden. ... Gauteng, Zuid-Afrika. De Cullinan was 3106 karaat (621,2 gram) en had aan één kant een groot plat vlak, waaruit blijkt dat de oorspronkelijke steen nog veel groter is geweest. De Cullinan is genoemd naar Thomas Cullinan, de eigenaar van de mijn.

The campus was formerly known as Setlogelo Technikon and was renamed after merging with the former Pretoria Technikon and Technikon Northern Gauteng (TNG). Health care. Ga-Rankuwa has the second largest hospital in South Africa [citation needed] which is Dr. George Mukhari Academic Hospital.

In 1889 a controlling interest (2/3) of Doornkloof was purchased by Alois Hugo Nellmapius, a businessman.Nellmapius had previously established a transport business between Lourenço Marques and Pilgrim's Rest, as well as several industrial concerns (a gin and whisky factory, South Africa's first gunpowder factory, and the Irene lime works). ...

History Origins. Although all the regular units of Irish origin in the British Army have served in South Africa at some time during its colonial involvement in South Africa, the first autonomous South African units shaped by Irish influences were the Cape Town Irish Volunteer Rifles (raised by a Major O'Reilly in 1885) and Driscoll's Scouts (raised by Capt D.P. Driscoll during the …

St John's College is an Independent Anglican day and boarding boys' school situated in Houghton Estate in the city of Johannesburg in the Gauteng province of South Africa.It was founded in 1898 and comprises five schools: College, Preparatory, Pre-Preparatory and The Bridge Nursery, as well as a co-educational Sixth Form.

The Cullinan, 3 Ash Street, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg Johannesburg, Houghton Estate ... Bolts Farm, Sterkfontein 173 IQ (portion 32), Gauteng Current use: Research. This series of fossil sites is one of the most important in the world for the study of human evolution in the context of changing ecological and biological processes ...