Ou Raadsaal Ou Raadsaal The Ou Raadsaal (English: "Old Council Hall") is a historic building in Pretoria, South Africa, located on the south side of Church Square. The Ou Raadsaal housed the Volksraad, the parliament of the South African Republic, from 1891 to 1902. The Ou Raadsaal was commissioned in the late 19th century by the South African Republic as the new seat of government in Pretoria, and was designed by Dutch architect Sytze Wierda in a Renaissance Revival style. The contract for construction was granted to John Johnstone Kirkness, a builder from the Orkney Islands with a prolific building career in
Ou Shaoyan Rowing Championships. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, she partnered with Yu Hua in the lightweight women's double sculls and came tenth. At the 2004 World Rowing Championships, she competed as the cox for the LTA mixed coxed four in one of the adaptive rowing events, and their team came eighth. Ou Shaoyan Ou Shaoyan (born 17 August 1973) is a Chinese lightweight rower. Ou was born in 1973 and is from Guangdong, China. She competed in lightweight women's four and won gold at the 1991 World Rowing Championships, and came fourth at the 1992 World Rowing Championships.