Pretoria sheds past with a new name

http://www.guardian.co.uk/southafrica/story/0,13262,1432829,00.html

Associated Press in Pretoria
Tuesday March 8, 2005
The Guardian

In a historic vote, South Africa's capital voted to rename itself Tshwane yesterday, retaining the name Pretoria for the city centre only.

The decision was taken at a special meeting of the metropolitan council, which is dominated by the governing African National Congress, the South African Press Association reported.

"By embarking on this process and project of transformation, our country is making a clear distinction between the old and the new, the past and the present," the executive mayor, Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, was quoted as saying during an emotive four-hour debate.

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Tshwane, which means "we are the same", is the name used by some of the region's earliest African settlers.

;)

BUt then, I still see most of the world as Europa.

***sigh***

Somehow, it doesn't seem the same as "We're Marching to Pretoria...."

bah and humbug

I hate when they do that

Next thing you know, KY will get changed. Someone will find out about the "darkk and bloody ground" thing, reffering to the ancient hunting grounds KY once was, and the inter tribal wars over it, and demand the change. PETA will probably do it.