Verwoerdburg

Centurion recently known as Verwoerdburg and before that Lyttelton is a region with 236,580 in 2011 census inhabitants in Gauteng Province of South Africa, situated among Pretoria and Midrand Johannesburg. Once in the past a free district, with its very own town chamber, it has framed piece of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality since 2000. Its heart is situated at the convergence of the N1 and N14 turnpikes. The R21 likewise goes through Centurion. The Waterkloof Air Force Base, just as the Swartkop Air Force Base which incorporates the South African Air Force Museum are situated in Centurion.

Fossils found at the Sterkfontein Caves demonstrate that primates lived in the region of Centurion somewhere in the range of 2 and 3 million years prior. The Sterkfontein Caves, a World Heritage Site, is under 50 km from Centurion, close Mogale City and Krugersdorp. In any case, the most punctual proof of current human residence in the Centurion territory does not go this far back. It goes back to 1200 AD when dark African people group settled around there.