The Northern Transvaal, known as the Limpopo province, was a large, relatively sparsely populated province, mostly used for farming. Located along the northern border of South Africa, it shared a border with Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Botswana and Mozambique.
As it lacked mineral wealth until platinum was discovered there in 1923, the province had little attraction for the conquering British after the Boer War, except as a hunting ground for the abundant game still found in the region.
Based around the capital city of Pretoria, the Northern Transvaal (or Noord Transvaal to most of the local inhabitants) competes today as Northern Tigers (Note the same NT abbreviation). Towns along the N1 highway to the border at Messina also includes Pietersburg, Potgietersrus, Warmbad, Louis Trichard. South of Pretoria is Centurion.
The British influence on town planning is clearly absent from the towns of the Northern Transvaal, as there are almost no municipal swimming pools in the province, outside of the capital Pretoria. There are also very few private schools, besides the many new ones south of Pretoria. Some of the towns have suffered the ignominy of being renamed after the ANC takeover of their municipalities, and these towns also have a number of dead swimming pools.
See the map for the location of the swimming pools.