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'''PRETORIA''' | '''PRETORIA''' | ||
Province : [ | Province : [[Gauteng]]<br> | ||
Metropolitan Municipality : Tshwane | Metropolitan Municipality : Tshwane | ||
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PRETORIA
Province : Gauteng
Metropolitan Municipality : Tshwane
Origin/meaning
The inescutcheon is canting. The town of Pretoria was named at the time of its founding (as the seat of a new landdrost's district) after the Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius (who came from Graaff-Reinet) and his son Martinus Wessel Pretorius, President of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek and (briefly) also of the Oranje Vrij Staat. The name Pretorius (from the Latin "prætorius") is a translation of the Dutch surname Schout or of the German surname Schultz, both of which mean a sheriff or magistrate. Originally the escutcheon showed a Roman praetor with stick, but these were in 1943 replaced by the judge.
Literature : Information send by Mike Oettle (pmoettle@tmecl.co.za)