Lukasrand Tower | |
Location: | Pretoria, South Africa |
Coordinates: | -25.7661°N 28.2056°W |
Status: | Complete |
Building Type: | Radio tower |
Antenna Spire: | 1980NaN0 |
The Lukasrand Tower (formerly known as the John Vorster Tower) is located on Muckleneuk Hill in the Lukasrand suburb of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. The tower was built in 1978[1] and its primary purpose is wireless telecommunications (e.g., microwave transmission, mobile phone, etc.). It also features an observation deck. The tower is dressed with branding signs for Telkom SA. For a time (September 2009 to prior to August 2012), the tower also sported a 24-metre, eight storey high, fibreglass soccer ball, for the 2010 World Cup.[2]