abstract:Pretoria North () is a suburb of the city of Pretoria in Gauteng, South Africa, with a population of 12,972 people according to the 2011 census. As the name suggests, it is situated to the north of the city centre, from Church Square.
Before his son Patrice was born, Augustine was banished by the government to Hammanskraal, a rural area north of Pretoria where the government thought he could do less damage (he named his son after Patrice Lumumba, head of the Republic of the Congo and one of the first black African postcolonial leaders).