The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 27th, 2000
South Africa considers changing apartheid-era place names
By SUSANNA LOOF
Associated Press
Sunday, August 27, 2000
Johannesburg, South Africa -- Apartheid is gone, but South African maps are still filled with tributes to white men once hailed as heroes by the country's minority rulers.
In the new South Africa, there is a move to change the map -- to drop the geographic homage to a racist past and to adopt or restore African names to reflect pride in the heritage and history of the country's indigenous people.
The administrative capital, Pretoria, is named after Andries Pretorius, a leade...
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