Pretoria is Pretoria - Jordan

How I understand the issue, is that this has nothing to do with the renaming of Pretoria to Tshwane.

This simply has to do with the fact that the capital has not been renamed to Tshwane, the capital is still Pretoria. But, the greater area of land allways known as Pretoria now goes by two names, 1. The Capital Portion which remains Pretoria, and 2. The greater area which is now named Tshwane.

I have heard rumours (totally unverified I may add), that the Pretoria portion of the Tshwane region only spans a couple of City blocks. This could very well be the case seeing that the administrative / government buildings in Pretoria are very much confined to the same small geographical area.

Thus to be totally correct in this matter the SABC would need to refer to the area as Pretoria, when they are reporting on something happening at the Union Buildings for example, and refer to the area as Tshwane when reporting about an event at Menlyn for example.

My understanding. Agree / Disagree

Discuss please

- twiga
 
twiga said:
How I understand the issue, is that this has nothing to do with the renaming of Pretoria to Tshwane.

This simply has to do with the fact that the capital has not been renamed to Tshwane, the capital is still Pretoria. But, the greater area of land allways known as Pretoria now goes by two names, 1. The Capital Portion which remains Pretoria, and 2. The greater area which is now named Tshwane.

I have heard rumours (totally unverified I may add), that the Pretoria portion of the Tshwane region only spans a couple of City blocks. This could very well be the case seeing that the administrative / government buildings in Pretoria are very much confined to the same small geographical area.

Thus to be totally correct in this matter the SABC would need to refer to the area as Pretoria, when they are reporting on something happening at the Union Buildings for example, and refer to the area as Tshwane when reporting about an event at Menlyn for example.

My understanding. Agree / Disagree

Discuss please

- twiga
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pretty much how i understood it too. on etv in the weather report they still call it pretoria.
 
The city is still Pretoria even if the metropol decided to call itself the city of Tshwane.
 
The city is still Pretoria even if the metropol decided to call itself the city of Tshwane
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It would be nice if the gov clearly defines what area is to be the City of Pretoria?

- twiga
 
When a town is established and it grows, the new areas are called different. They are termed suburbs and have names different to other suburbs or the town name. Some suburbs have extensions to easily absorb small additions.

The name of a town or city is therefore the collective name of its very origin, including the suburbs.

Would be chaos to have each suburb to be a place like a town. I wonder how many that stay in Pretoria know where Maroelana suburb is. Talking about Newlands could be a place in Pretoria or Cape Town for that matter.

As such it is ridiculous and quite frankly extremely ignorant of the Mayor to equate Pretoria as a small area in the centre of Pretoria. Yes it is Pretoria Central because that is the centre where Pretoria grew out of.

The town was not established and build by a person called Tshwane ever.

Anyway if the Bulls win the Super14 at Loftus (which can happen if the Bulls win the Crusaders and the Blues win the Sharks and then there is a home final at Loftus) Pretoria City might as well be called Loftus, with a suburb called Pretoria being part of Loftus. Might as well then call the rest of the Tshwane Metro the Substructure of Loftus.
 
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