Gelewer op 19 Mei 2012 | 17:52:05

Some tibes in SA named the areas where they stay, after animals. We get the bakwena etc. (bakwena highway) which means the "crocodile people". The spelling of the name Tshwane is actually wrong. It should in fact, be spelt Tshwene.

Gelewer op 16 Maart 2012 | 02:59:04

prof, you seem to contradict yurlseof: What does it matter whether we call it “Pretoria� or �Tswane� when there are so much more pressing problems facing our country and yet go on a rant about the DA's slow moving of changing names you do not agree with. my view on all this is, I don't really care if they call it Pretoria, Tshwane or Apartheid HQ. Fact is it is a **** load better place to live than Cape Town on a serious note, I do think we have more serious issues to sort out. Renaming Oswald Pirow Drive is not going to solve unemployment or any of the other issues we have, but I do recognise that the historical names as they stand now do not reflect the majority of the population's history but I bet given the choice between a house in Pretoria or a shack in Tshwane most sane people would go for the house time to stop wasting money!