Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Pretoria is Pretoria!

Today 10 February, Juche 99, I read the latest pamphlet from the South African Freedom Front Plus Party, an Afrikaaner nationalist party. After reading this, I discovered that there is a motion which will rename the city of Pretoria to Tshwane. The move to Africanise an Afrikaaner city is ridiculous! The city of Pretoria was founded in 1855 by Martinus Pretorius, an Afrikaaner settler. There is no historic evidence of the city of Pretoria, being a native African city or settlement. The city of Pretoria is and should always be Pretoria.

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