The oldest building in the complex is the South African Garrison Institute, what is now known as the Army College.

Lord Kitchener laid the cornerstone on 12 June 1902.

[2] Today the installation is home to: Founded around 1905 by the British Army, and called Roberts Heights[3] after Field Marshal Lord Roberts.

The area was subsequently renamed Voortrekkerhoogte ("Voortrekker Heights") in 1939 by the government of the Union of South Africa, following the beginning of the building of the nearby Voortrekker Monument, at a time of growing Afrikaner nationalism.

On 19 May 1998, following the end of apartheid, it was renamed again, as Thaba Tshwane.