Statue of Paul Kruger, Bronze monument in Church Square, Pretoria, South Africa

The Paul Kruger statue in Church Square, Pretoria, is a bronze sculpture by Anton van Wouw showing Paul Kruger in a top hat and presidential sash, holding a cane, on a plinth. Four unnamed Boer soldiers stand at the corners below the main plinth, two from the Voortrekker era and two from Van Wouw's time, each facing a cardinal direction.

Sammy Marks offered £10,000 in 1895 for a Kruger statue; the government chose Burgers Park and bronze over marble on Dr Nico Mansvelt's advice. Anton van Wouw modelled it in Europe from 1896 to 1898, but the Second Boer War delayed casting. The work was erected in Prince's Park in 1913, moved outside Pretoria station in 1925, and placed on Church Square in 1954, with a replica unveiled in Orania in 2025.

Van Wouw dressed Kruger in the tailcoat and top hat he considered inseparable from him, answering critics that without them he would not recognise the president. The four burghers below, two from the Voortrekker era and two from Van Wouw's own time, each face a cardinal direction, seated and watchful rather than standing to attention like drilled soldiers.

The statue stands at the centre of Church Square, facing north up Church Street towards the old railway station site where it stood from 1925 to 1954. The square is open ground with the statue on a raised plinth, so it can be walked around and viewed from all four sides; the Boer figures face the cardinal directions.

The pedestal carries no inscription. A Bible verse, Psalm 91:15-16, was proposed by envoy J. G. T. Beelaerts van Blokland, but Kruger asked for Psalm 105:4-5 instead, believing praise belonged to God alone; the change never happened. Van Wouw also insisted on the top hat, arguing no Transvaal Boer would stand bareheaded under the African sun.