Irene

Irene is a village of 2,700 people (2011) on the outskirts of Centurion in Tshwane, South Africa. It is south of Pretoria. Irene is known for having been a home to the South African statesman and military leader Jan Smuts, and as the site of a concentration camp where the British imprisoned Boer (Afrikaner) women and children during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). More than 1200 people died in the camp.

Get in
There are direct trains from Pretoria and Johannesburg via Metrorail, there are numerous intermediate stations however and these trains suffer from overcrowding. Nearby Centurion is served by high-sped and very comfortable Gautrain services.



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