Why is pretoria called tshwane?
Score: 4.9/5 (2 votes) The story goes that the drought was broken in this way, and the river thereafter was named "Tshwane", derived from "tshwana" and meaning "place of the black cow". When the city of Pretoria began to develop around the Apies river, the name Tshwane was carried over to the city.W...