Word: tshwane
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South Africa Dozens of communities traded Afrikaner names for indigenous ones after apartheid ended. For instance, Pietersburg became Polokwane ("place of safety") in 2002. The government is pondering a proposal to change the capital, Pretoria, named for an Afrikaner hero, to Tshwane, for a precolonial chief...
...their colonial-era place names to African ones. Not so in South Africa, where, to help keep the peace in the early days of black rule, most cities, towns and streets retained the old names of apartheid. When the mayor of Pretoria, Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, recently suggested renaming the city Tshwane, the area's name before the arrival of white settlers, white residents protested that the change would be costly and, according to a petition drawn up by students at the University of Pretoria, "show contempt for history." But a name change, says the mayor, is backed by many of Pretoria...
...NAME: Pretoria NEW NAME: Tshwane Expect fierce resistance but eventual change...
...NAME: Pretoria NEW NAME: Tshwane Expect fierce resistance but eventual change...
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