The National Zoological Gardens of South Africa is situated on approximately 70 hectares in the heart of Pretoria. Since its inception in 1899 it has grown to such an extent that today it enjoys world-wide recognition. Not only is it the largest zoo in South Africa but one of the ten best in the world. More that one million people visit it every year. It is also the only zoo with national status. The zoo houses 140 mammal and 320 bird species, in the biggest inland see-water aquarium 300 fish species and in the reptile park. Ninety reptile species as well as several amphibian and invertibray species. The zoo also has a farmyard where children can learn about farm animals. The zoo is very proud to have the third best plant collection in South Africa. For visitors convenience there is a restaurant, cable car that gives a panoramic view of the zoo and surrounding city as well as a picnic area with barbecue facilities.

Situated in the centre of the city, it is the focal point of the administrative capital of South Africa. The large open space, formed part if the original survey of Pretoria by Andries Francios du Toit, whose map bears the date 2 March 1859.

The name derives from the fact that Reverent Dirk van der Hoff established a congregation there in 1854. After Pretoria had became the seat of the Transvaal government in 1860 important Government buildings were erected round the square such as the government Building, often refferd to as the ‘Raadzaal’ and the Palace of Justice opposite. Today there is a lot of restaurants and shops.

In the middle of the square is the President Kruger statue, designed by Anton van Wouw, guarded by four bronze statues representing burghers of the Kruger regime. The twenty six kilometre Church Street, which is one of the longest straight street in the world, runs through the square.

The Voortrekker Monument is a massive granite monument designed by Gerhard Moerdyk and built as a national shrine to commemorate the Voortrekkers. Inside the monument is the Hall of Heroes, the four walls of which are decorated with an Italian marble fresco depicting the history of the Great Trek in 1838. The floor of the main hall is pierced by a large circular opening. This reveals the symbolic cenotaph of the Voortrekker leader, Piet Retief, and his men. Precisely at 12 noon on December 16, the Day of the Vow, a ray of sunlight falls through an aperture in the blue-domed ceiling to light up the inscription on the granite monolith below. In front of the monument is the Van Wouw statue of a Voortrekker mother and children. Four massive figures hewn from solid granite representing Piet Retief, Andries Pretorius, Hendrik Potgieter and the unknown Voortrekker, are mounted as sentries at each corner of the monument. Surrounding the edifice is a wall carved to represent a laager of full-size wagons. In the museum at the Voortrekker Monument ten wall tapestries, designed by Mr W.H. Coetzer, and to which nine women devoted eight years may be seen. The purpose of the tapestries is to express the desire to do homage to the heroic deeds of the Great Trek.

In Pretoria the Union Buildings is situated on Meintjeskop. Meintjeskop lies on the eastern border of the farm Elandspoort. By 1870 this section, where the borders of the three farms Elandspoort, Daspoort and Rietfontein met, came into the possession of Stephanus Meintjes and was named Meintjeskop. Sir Herbert Baker had to build an administration building for the new Union. At that time it was the biggest building ever built. This building had different sections: It had 2 big office sections; a curved section combined the office sections with colonnades and an amphitheatre. The whole building is 275 metres long. Each wing as well as the amphitheatre is 90 metres long. The National Archives are housed in the cellar. The three stories were occupied by government offices. The foundation was laid in 1910 and the cornerstone on the 26th of November. Baker planned a rose garden in which the elegant building with its rich sandstone colour, clean renaissance lines, two symbolic towers and classic amphitheatre are situated. These buildings were completed in November 1913

A short walk from Church Square in Pretoria, the residence of President Paul Kruger has been turned into a museum and national monument. Kruger made his home in this unpretentious little house from 1883 until 1900, when he went into exile in Europe. He died in Switzerland in 1904. As well as many of Kruger's belongings, such as his pipes, the house contains a host of other exhibits. These include the Vierkleur (republican flag) that flew for the last time in 1900 when Kruger left for Europe, unaware that he was leaving his homeland forever; the desk before which he must have spent many anxious hours, the chair, bearing the arms of the South African Republic, in which he was often photographed and one of the first telephones to be installed in Pretoria. Amongst all other things there's the knife that Kruger used to amputate his thumb after a shooting accident. At the back of the house is the President's state coach and his private railway coach. The railway coach was built in the Netherlands and is made up of two coaches which were joined together on arrival in the Transvaal. Legend has it that he would sit on the porch and chat with passers-by. The Dutch Reformed Church where he worshipped and preached, is across the road.