(2010 FIFA world Cup Organising Committee)

Pretoria is close enough to Johannesburg's airport to provide a practical alternative base in Gauteng.

It feels safer and less spread out than Johannesburg (though don't make the blithe assumption that Pretoria is crime-free), there are more conventional sights, and the nightlife is energetic and fun.

Gauteng's two major cities are just 50km apart, but could hardly be more different. With its graceful government buildings, wide avenues of purple flowering jacarandas, and stolid Boer farming origins, Pretoria – or Tshwane as the metropolitan area has now been officially renamed -- has always been a staid, sleepy city.

Source: Roughguides