Pretoria Pride

Pretoria Pride is a one-day Pride gathering in Centurion, between Pretoria and Johannesburg. For about a decade it has been held at the Centurion Rugby Club. Bruce Walker is named in local press as its founder. It started in the early 2010s, when Joburg Pride had stopped its parade, and it grew quickly: Pretoria community paper reports counted around 3,000 people at one early edition and more than 7,500 at the second event at the rugby club in 2014. We couldn't find a recent headcount.

It usually falls on a Saturday in early October, a few weeks before Johannesburg Pride. The 14th edition, themed 'Uniting the Rainbow', was on Saturday 4 October 2025.

The 15th edition, themed 'Pride Reclaimed: United in Strength', was first set for 3 October 2026. On 12 August the organizers moved it to Saturday 10 October 2026. A rival event, Jacaranda Pride at ETC Pub Centurion, moved to the same day about a kilometer away, and Pretoria Pride publicly stated it has no connection to it. Don't confuse the two. We found no coverage of the 2026 edition after the event. The 2027 date hadn't been announced when we checked.