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News - Date: 13 April 2007
Awaiting the outcome of Thursday night’s special council meeting to discuss the municipality’s reaction to the recent Appeal Court’s judgement in the controversial name change sage, the Chairpersons’ Association (CA) again warned Council to tread carefully should they decide to pursue changing the name of Louis Trichardt once again.
By the time of going to press, the special council meeting had yet to take place. Only one item appeared on the agenda, listed as "Judgement on the Chairpersons’ Association V Minister of Arts and Culture (2007) SCA 44 (RSA): Name change of Louis Trichardt to Makhado". Last week, municipal spokesperson Mr Peter Magwala stated that the meeting would take place on Tuesday, April 10, but when phoned that afternoon, Mr Magwala said that he had forgotten to inform the newspaper that the meeting had been moved to Thursday.
The chairman of the CA, Mr André Naudé, minced no words when he said that councillors should attract votes through good governance principles, best practices and service delivery, rather than doing unfounded cosmetic name changes leading to further embarrassment for this region. He sternly warned that, this time round, the CA will take councillors both collectively and individually to court and hold them personally responsible for any costs incurred in the municipality’s effort to have the name changed.
Naudé said that the municipality has no basis for changing the name of Louis Trichardt and described the municipality’s actions leading up to the Appeals Court judgement as a "vengeance game". He said the municipality had forgotten the peaceful negotiations and spirit of reconciliation which led to the country’s first democratic elections in 1994 and that their only other motivation for trying to change the name of Louis Trichardt was to marginalize minority groups by writing them out of South Africa’s history. Naudé quoted from the South African Geographical Names Council Act under the heading Can existing names be changed?, which states that "Geographical names are part of the historical, cultural and linguistic heritage of the nation, which is more desirable to preserve than destroy".
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