Article: Mbombela name change challenge stalled

[rpm]

You can view the page at http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/content.php/7353-Mbombela-name-change-challenge-stalled

 

[rpm]

A bid to challenge Minister Lulu Xingwana's nod for Nelspruit to be renamed Mbombela was delayed on Monday.

The matter was not heard in the High Court in Pretoria because of a scheduling error.

 

[genetic]

Why not deliver services and leave names?

I'm not anti changing offensive names, but surely the money can be better spent elsewhere?

 

[Fudzy]

What does Nelspruit mean?

 

[Sinbad]

What does Nelspruit mean?

Nel's river

 

[Gallderhen]

Nel's river

More like Nel's brook.

-G-

 

[Dlamaqhinga]

change it, also change Harrismith in FS and Ladysmith in KZN

 

[OrbitalDawn]

change it, also change Harrismith in FS and Ladysmith in KZN

Because...?

 

[thestaggy]

Because...?

The country will immediately run better after those names change. Names hold this country back. The names of Harrismith and Ladysmith do more damage to our economy than our corrupt government and perpetual strikes.

 

[Sm00thSm0k3]

Because...?

Do you really think this troll will provide you with any kind of substantial answer or argument to his clearly racist based statement?! A lot of BLACK people don't want any white/English/Afrikaans names linked to towns anymore, it's that simple....

 

[NiTeD]

:wtf:

 

[SmartKit]

Why not deliver services and leave names?

I'm not anti changing offensive names, but surely the money can be better spent elsewhere?

You mean like the über offensive North Ridge Road in Durban?

 

[thestaggy]

You mean like the über offensive North Ridge Road in Durban?

Colonial tendencies if ever I saw.

 

[Bona Botse]

Do you really think this troll will provide you with any kind of substantial answer or argument to his clearly racist based statement?! Most BLACK people don't want any white/English/Afrikaans names linked to towns anymore, it's that simple....

Do you have any proof for your outrageous claim? Who's the troll here then?

 

[SmartKit]

Colonial tendencies if ever I saw.

It must be because it's on a ridge, north of the city, that really threw them off. The British and their imposition of directions and geographical entities upon the people of this country!

 

[Fudzy]

Riverside and Point were the most illogical street name changes for me. Quite happy there is one less Ridge road in the greater Durban area, there are too many to begin with

 

[Musicmp3]

Anything to take the focus away from poor delivery.

 

[Tns]

why changes the names in the first place? and waste all that money that could have been use for gravy....erm i mean service delivery.....

 

[Nicodeamus]

You mean like the über offensive North Ridge Road in Durban?

and the changing of Zambezi Road in Pretoria..

Just a few days before Namibia decided to rename the Caprivi Strip to the Zambezi strip..

In Namibia Zambezi is acceptable in SA it dictates back to the Apartheid years..

 

[Nicodeamus]

Riverside and Point were the most illogical street name changes for me. Quite happy there is one less Ridge road in the greater Durban area, there are too many to begin with

In Pretoria they decided to give the ultra offensive Church Street a rename to about 5 people whose names I still can't pronounce because their spelling changes from street sign to street sign.