Videos tagged with "pretoria"
Impala vs. Showdown Rocket Car [02:43]
Impala went up against the Jet Car of Johan Jacobs (580km/h) at Wonderboom Airport in Pretoria, South Africa. Sorry for the bad quality...
Tags: Jet, Rocket, Car, Johan, Jacobs, Wonderboom, Airport, Pretoria, South, Africa, Impala
Josh/EJ - Voortrekkers Monument - South Africa [00:18]
The Voortrekker Monument is a monument situated in the city of Pretoria, South Africa. The massive granite structure, built to honour the Voortrekkers (Pioneers) who left the Cape Colony in the thousands between 1835 and 1854, was designed by the architect Gerard Moerdijk who had the ideal to design a "monument that would stand a thousand years to describe the history and the meaning of the Great Trek to its descendants". It can be seen from almost any location in the city, as it is seated on a hilltop.
Tags: Voortrekkers, the, Great, Trek, South, Africa, Pretoria
Josh/EJ - View of Pretoria, South Africa from the top of the Voortrekkers Museum [00:30]
The Voortrekker Monument is surrounded by a circular wall engraved with wagons—a depiction of the historical Trekker practice of "circling the wagons" during defense under attack. Outside the wagon wall is an elaborate botanical garden. Small streams running through the garden are labeled with signs representing major rivers of South Africa. Also, miniature huts, 1/8 scale, are scattered about the garden, representing tribal villages. The spatial impression thus created is that of the Voortrekker Monument as a cultural construction tapering towards the sun, representing an indigenous civilization of the African Sun with its life giving white light, protected by a chain of wagons keeping it apart from the natural wilderness of continental Africa, represented by beautiful dark green gardens.
Tags: Voortrekkers, Pretoria, South, Africa
Josh/EJ - Union Buildings Pretoria, Capital Building South Africa [00:22]
The Union Buildings form the official seat of the South African government and also house the offices of the President of South Africa. The imposing buildings are located in Pretoria, atop Meintjieskop at the Northern end of Arcadia, close to historic Church Square and the Voortrekker Monument. The large gardens of the Buildings are nestled between Government Avenue, Vermeulen Street East, Church Street, the R104, and Blackwood Street. Fairview Avenue is a closed road where only officials can enter to the Union Buildings. Though not in the center of Pretoria the Union Buildings occupy the highest point of Pretoria, and constitute a South African National monument. The Buildings are one of the centres of political life in South Africa; "The Buildings" and "Arcadia" have become metonyms for the South African Government. It has become an iconic landmark of Pretoria and South Africa in general, and is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city and an emblem of democracy. The Buildings are the location of Presidential Inaugurations.
Tags: Pretoria, South, Africa, Union, Buildings, Nelson, Mandela
South Africa [03:10]
Videos taken on Thandeka Game Reserve and Joburg, South Africa.
Tags: South Africa, wildlife, Joburg, Pretoria, Anna, Cheeta, Giraffes, Animals, Safari, Fun, Wingate University Choir



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