L'accident d'un Convair 340 à Pretoria s'est produit le 10 juillet 2018, lorsqu'un Convair 340, appartenant à Rovos Air et acquis récemment par le musée néerlandais de l'aviation, Aviodrome, s'est écrasé lors d'un vol d'essai à Pretoria, en Afrique du Sud. L'avion a subi un incendie sur un de ses moteurs, quelques instants après le décollage, et s'est écrasé dans une usine alors que l'équipage tentait de le ramener à l'aéroport de Prétoria-Wonderboom, causant la mort de 3 personnes, dont une au sol, ainsi que 26 blessés.
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Sinoville is a northern suburb of Pretoria, South Africa. It lies to the east of the Wonderboom, on the northern slopes of the Magaliesberg mountains, and south of Wonderboom Airport.
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Hoërskool Overkruin is a public Afrikaans and English language-medium high school in Wonderboom, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.
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Wonderboom is a northern residential suburb of Pretoria, South Africa. The suburb includes the Wonderboom Nature Reserve site of the famous Wonderboom, on the northern slopes of the Magaliesberg mountains, just east of the Apies River. Neighbouring suburbs are Annlin to the west, Sinoville to the north and east and Wonderboom South to the south.
Schools in the suburb include Hoërskool Wonderboom, Hoërskool Overkruin, Laerskool Wonderboom and Northridge Primary School.
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Onderstepoort is a town situated north of Pretoria in Gauteng, South Africa.
Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the University of Pretoria Faculty of Veterinary Science, founded by Sir Arnold Theiler, is also situated here. The institute is known for tropical disease research, and the veterinary faculty has strong ties with the Royal College of Veterinary Science in the United Kingdom.
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The Faculty of Veterinary Science is a faculty of the University of Pretoria. Founded in 1920, it is the second oldest veterinary faculty in Africa. With the exception of the faculties in Khartoum, and Cairo, all the other African faculties were established after 1960. It is the only one of its kind in South Africa and is one of 33 veterinary faculties in Africa.
Since 1997, the university as a whole has produced more research outputs every year than any other institution of higher learning in South Africa, as measured by the Department of Education's accreditation benchmark.
The Faculty offers an undergraduate veterinary degree programme and a veterinary nursing diploma programme as well as a variety of postgraduate degree programmes.
Graduates of the Faculty enjoy national and international recognition and the BVSc degree of the University of Pretoria currently enjoys recognition for registration by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in the UK, the Australasian Veterinary Boards Council in Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania as well as by the relevant authorities in Malaysia.