The fight between apartheid leaders and struggle veterans on the streets of Pretoria is far from over.
On Thursday‚ Tshwane executive mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa told a council meeting that plans are afoot to take the high court decision lost by council to the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein.
On June 2‚ the City of Tshwane lost its bid to challenge a ruling made in April 2013 that interdicted it from removing the capital’s old street names.
The municipality took down the old street names‚ which temporarily were replaced with the new names‚ in 2013‚ while the legal challenge by minority rights lobby group AfriForum was still pending.
This brought another showdown between apartheid leaders and the African National Congress leaders to battle it out on the streets of the country’s capital.
Ramokgopa assured the council that he was going to take the renaming of streets as far as the appeal court.
“We are continuing with that [renaming] effort and continue to only have the names that have been approved here until the high court and supreme court make that determination‚” said Ramokgopa.
“I suspect that we will take this further. We are convinced this argument that this space belongs to everyone‚ there is no one who can appropriate it for themselves. Why are you refusing co-existence because it is at the heart of this argument? We must defeat it and we are convinced we will do exactly that‚” he added.
Mayor vows to take Tshwane street name tussle to SCA
The fight between apartheid leaders and struggle veterans on the streets of Pretoria is far from over.
On Thursday‚ Tshwane executive mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa told a council meeting that plans are afoot to take the high court decision lost by council to the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein.
On June 2‚ the City of Tshwane lost its bid to challenge a ruling made in April 2013 that interdicted it from removing the capital’s old street names.
The municipality took down the old street names‚ which temporarily were replaced with the new names‚ in 2013‚ while the legal challenge by minority rights lobby group AfriForum was still pending.
This brought another showdown between apartheid leaders and the African National Congress leaders to battle it out on the streets of the country’s capital.
Ramokgopa assured the council that he was going to take the renaming of streets as far as the appeal court.
“We are continuing with that [renaming] effort and continue to only have the names that have been approved here until the high court and supreme court make that determination‚” said Ramokgopa.
“I suspect that we will take this further. We are convinced this argument that this space belongs to everyone‚ there is no one who can appropriate it for themselves. Why are you refusing co-existence because it is at the heart of this argument? We must defeat it and we are convinced we will do exactly that‚” he added.
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