Tshwane is now a reality

Should Pretoria become Tshwane?

  • Yes

    Votes: 14 14.3%

  • No

    Votes: 83 84.7%

  • Unsure

    Votes: 1 1.0%
  • Total voters
    98
JHatman said:
I'm afraid our Isede/vantage is a white guy. I've never heard a single black guy in my entire life refer to the pound/quid as bob. I'm also going to put his age range at around 50+ since they are the only age range who I've ever come across use the word bob, and it was only English guys who use it, its very old school. Nowadays everything is pound or quid.

I doubt this troll is even sympathetic to the ANC or Zulu's at all and his lack of geographical knowledge leads me to think he's from overseas. Just another attention whore trying to rev up Safricans by hijacking threads.
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I'm afraid to point out to you that words like 5 bob and 5 tiger are commonly used amongst black people. They are more common than the word "ekasi".
 
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Just to comfirm that moggie said, from IOL

The Pretoria name-change issue is going back to the drawing board after Arts and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana retracted the registration of the Tshwane municipal council as a geographical feature.

She said on Tuesday that the retraction after the printing of the notice in last Friday's Government Gazette was "so that more work can be done by officials on this matter".

Spokesman Mack Lewele said Xingwana sent 29 name changes for gazetting last week, among them the name Tshwane.

Lewele confirmed that when Deputy Arts and Culture Minister Paul Mashatile cancelled a media briefing on the name changes on Thursday, Tshwane had already been sent for gazetting and it was too late to remove the name from Friday's Government Gazette.

He said Mashatile had raised a number of "internal issues" with officials, and this led to the decision to cancel a planned press conference at the last minute. He declined to say what the issues were.

"The deputy minister wanted to satisfy himself that all the processes had been followed and that there was proper motivation (on the Pretoria name change)," said Lewele.

Xingwana said the standardisation of geographical names in a democratic South Africa was part of the process of redressing the marginalisation of indigenous language, culture and heritage.

"It reclaims this wealth for the benefit of all, now and in the future. It is an exciting and dynamic process filled with opportunity for South Africans to enhance their understanding of themselves and their geographical places, and in this way, to celebrate common identity," said Xingwana.
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So Pretoria live to fight another day.

How do they want to celebrate common identity if they exclude one group from the decision making process?
 
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Wrong, wrong, we use them so I doubt you have been around black people. You a liar money
 
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