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Government House was built between 1902 and 1906 as the official residence of the governor of the
Transvaal Colony The Transvaal Colony () was the name used to refer to the Transvaal region during the period of direct British rule and military occupation between the end of the Second Boer War in 1902 when the South African Republic was dissolved, and the ...
. The Cape vernacular style was taken on as a national building style promoted not only by the Cape coteries but also by proponents of Dutch-speaking republican independence or of Afrikaner nationalism, notably the Dutch Pretoria artist Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef. Over the next few decades most public buildings in
South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
were designed with versions of Cape Dutch gables, with fanlights, mullioned windows, and brass escutcheons, to differing degrees of cost and credibility.


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Government Houses of South Africa The following is a list of Government Houses of South Africa. * Transvaal, Government House of Transvaal *Cape Province, Government House of Cape Province * Orange Free State, Government House, Bloemfontein *Natal NATAL or Natal may refer to: ...
* Government Houses of the British Empire * Governors General of South Africa Government buildings completed in 1906 Houses completed in 1906 Official residences in South Africa Buildings and structures in Pretoria Government Houses of the British Empire and Commonwealth 1906 establishments in South Africa {{SouthAfrica-struct-stub