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Indigenisation is the way to go for all African countries. I do applaud
the recent move by the powers-that-be in South Africa to rid their
country of all vestiges of apartheid.Having lived and worked in that
country for while I know just how annoying some of the afrikaner names
can sound to black South Africans who suffered under the obxious
apartheid regime.We have bizarre names such as NEW LONDON, PORT
ELIZABETH, PIETERSBURG, PIETERMARITZBURG in South Africa! What the heck
do these names mean to the average South African? The project may appear
expensive but I believe that PRESIDNET MBEKI and his cohort should go
the whole hog ahead and do the right thing.
It is now or never!
PETER VAKUNTA
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From: f ossia <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, March 7, 2005 9:53 pm
Subject: South Africa's Capital Renamed Tshwane
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> South Africa's Capital Renamed Tshwane
> By Associated Press
>
> March 7, 2005, 10:29 PM EST
>
> PRETORIA, South Africa -- In a symbolic break with apartheid,
> officials in
> South Africa's capital voted Monday to rename the city Tshwane,
> retainingthe name Pretoria for the city center only.
>
> The decision was taken at a special meeting of the governing African
> National Congress-dominated metropolitan council, the South African
> PressAssociation reported.
>
> "By embarking on this process and project of transformation, our
> country is
> making a clear distinction between the old and the new, the past
> and the
> present," Executive Mayor Smangaliso Mkhatshwa was quoted as saying
> during a
> four-hour debate.
>
> The city of 2 million, established by white settlers in 1855, was
> namedafter Andries Pretorius, a leader in the Afrikaners' "Great
> Trek" into the
> interior of the country. Tshwane, which means "we are the same,"
> was the
> name used by some of the region's earliest African settlers.
>
> The South African Geographic Names Council is expected to approve
> the change
> when it convenes in October and begin the process of changing the
> city'sname on maps.
>
> Monday's vote is the latest in a series of geographic name changes
> sinceSouth Africa's first all-race elections in 1994 ended decades of
> white-minority rule.
>
> The government says South Africans should not have to live in
> cities, towns
> and streets named after the people responsible for their racial
> oppression.
> Opposition councilors argued Monday that the process was a waste of
> money,and said the move to rename Pretoria threatens to split the
> capital along
> racial lines.
> Copyright © 2005, The Associated Press
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