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South Africa

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Public buildings that have helped shape South Africa ’s political history include:

the city of Mapungubwe
Ou Raadsaal, Pretoria
Union Building, Pretoria
Johannesburg Police Station
Constitutional Court, Johannesburg

City of Mapungubwe, South Africa

10th - 13th century Nothing remains of the buildings of this iron age city which sat on the meeting of the Shashe and Limpopo Rivers and w...

Ou Raadsaal, Pretoria, South Africa

1891 The Ou Raadsaal, or Old Council Hall, was commissioned by the first president of the Boer Transvaal republic, Paul Kruger, and was d...

Union Building, Pretoria, South Africa

1909 - 1913 Designed by Herbert Baker, one of Britain's most famous colonial architects, the Union Building became the seat of South Afri...

Johannesburg Police Station, South Africa

1960 This police station was originally named after John Vorster, Minister of Justice and then Prime Minister, the man who created many o...

Constitutional Court, Johannesburg, South Africa

2004 The Constitutional Court is the home for the body which protects South Africa’s post-apartheid constitution. It was designed by Sout...