Tshwane metro 'changed naming policy'

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http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Tshwane-metro-changed-naming-policy-20120411

Pretoria - Just weeks before new street names for Pretoria were approved, the ANC-controlled Tshwane Metro Council changed a policy requiring consultation with residents, it was reported on Wednesday.

The original council document concerning name changes, which was approved in September 2007, was not adhered to, Beeld newspaper reported on Wednesday.

This document required that at least 51% of registered voters in a street give written consent for a new street name.

However, the Tshwane metro changed this requirement in January. Two months later, Tshwane mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa made an announcement concerning 25 new street names.

The 2007 document also required that new street names be put to residents via local newspapers, but there was no public participation on the 25 names announced.

Last week, civil rights lobby group AfriForum sent Ramokgopa a lawyer's letter pointing out that he was showing contempt for justice by trying to force the name change issue.

Ramokgopa's office said AfriForum's letter had been sent to the municipality's legal department.
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Underhanded ANC scum! :mad:
 
So if they can change a policy like that, what stops them from changing all their policies to avoid needing resident approval? If it is THIS EASY, why on earth have they not changed all these policies long ago?

In fact, who was asleep when they changed it? Surely it's not something that is changed without some sort of participation of the general population?

I think there's something missing with all this....
 
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Wouldn't the policy have to be passed through the gazette? Suprised that the opposition parties don't remember this.
 
diabolus said:
So if they can change a policy like that, what stops them from changing all their policies to avoid needing resident approval? If it is THIS EASY, why on earth have they not changed all these policies long ago?

In fact, who was asleep when they changed it? Surely it's not something that is changed without some sort of participation of the general population?

I think there's something missing with all this....
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The only thing that is missing is honesty and ethics.
 
Fudzy said:
Wouldn't the policy have to be passed through the gazette? Suprised that the opposition parties don't remember this.
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I have a feeling this may have been the compromise by the parties in order to "keep Pretoria, Pretoria"...

But lets wait for more of this story to develop
 
Fudzy said:
Wouldn't the policy have to be passed through the gazette? Suprised that the opposition parties don't remember this.
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I'm wondering that as well. In fact isn't it a national law that consultation has to take place? How can a metro council just change it? Totally expected from this scumbag though, remember he was quickly (and quietly) only made a council member on the same day he replaced his aunt as mayor, when the DA and FF+ pointed out that legally only council members can be mayor.

This is all good news actually, every time one of these irregularities pops up, it's an opportunity for the good guys to have it reversed or blocked eventually. E-tolls are going down soon, next up, this crap.
 
An ANC metro council can easily change it. Durban is a case in point with over 80 unpronounceable Comrade names on our street corners.

The local blacks don't even know who 90% of these people are!! :mad:
 
Fazda said:
An ANC metro council can easily change it. Durban is a case in point with over 80 unpronounceable Comrade names on our street corners.

The local blacks don't even know who 90% of these people are!! :mad:
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What!! I love my Problem Mkhize road :D

Seriously though, the city names are a bugger up, at least they haven't been spray painted like the ones in Glenwood.
 
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