The easiest place is to start close to home.
This is the front entrance to my home in Lynnwood Glen, a suburb to the East of Pretoria. Pretoria is the central area of Tshwani the renamed, larger Pretoria which is the administrative capital of South Africa. In case you didn't know the Union of South Africa was formed out of four Republics in 1920. To avoid a fight over where the capital should be sited, Transvaal was made the Administrative Capital, The Cape was made the Parlimentary Capital, the Free State was made the Judicial Capital and Natal the fourth province was compensated financially.
My house is a large 4 bedroomed, 2 living roomed, 2 "study" structure on a 2000 m2 property. The property houses beautiful indigenous trees which attract many birds and and are home to a troop of bush baby's. Have a look in Google Earth at 28.27919,-25.77178.
In the next few posts we will look at other areas of Tshwani and the houses one finds there.
Saturday, September 08, 2007
Where South Africans Live
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2 comments:
I had to put the coordinates into Google Earth opposite (-25.77178, 28.27919).
The lay-out and area looks a lot like what I can see in much of the USA. Is that a huge shopping mall at Atterbury Road and Danie Joubert Freeway? And many people have swimming pools - nice. Do most people own cars in this neighborhood? Is there public transportation available?
Very interesting, thank you for sharing.
Hi Jane
Thanks for your ongoing interest!
It is a big mall with a Drive In Theatre on the roof! Its the Menlyn Park Shopping Center (http://pabioussa.blogspot.com/) and attracts people from all over - some come hundreds of kilometers to the 300 hundred or so shops.
We also have a smaller center (maybe 40 shops) a kilometer or so to the North which we use for day to day shopping.
There is almost no public transport, everone has a car. Of course in other areas (which we will look at later) almost no one owns cars and most take busses for longer distances ( many travel hours a day to work in the city) or minibusses for shorter distances.
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