George Anthony Gustav Sinovich

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George Antun Sinovich came from the Sinovčić family, which shortened its family name for practical reasons[2]. George was born in Pretoria, where his father, Jure from Brač, came to alongside several of his neighbours. Jure owned a farm, and participated in the Boer War, fought against the English, and returned to his birthplace of Mirca in order to marry, even though he was quite the eligible bachelor in Africa. George, like his father Jure, was diligent and enterprising, and became one of the most successful farmers in the country, as well as a producer of food and alcoholic beverages. In 1929, he married a Croatian woman, also from Pretoria, and in 1938 he was appointed honorary consul of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He built the suburb of Sinoville on his lands, which was added to the city in 1965. Today, it is one of the oldest of Pretoria’s northern sections, and several of its avenues and streets carry Croatian names, such as Brac, Mirca, Konavle, Orsula, Marija, Antun, Miriana, and Luce.

The Pretorian municipality, in honour of George Sinovich, renamed one of the streets in its Daspoort district to Sinovich Drive.