Pretoria

The city of Pretoria has begun renaming streets to honour heroes of the anti-apartheid struggle, leaving some whites worried about losing their cultural identity in the South African capital.

Eighteen years after the African National Congress was elected to power, the city's streets still bear the names of leading figures from South Africa's white-dominated past, making it impossible to cross Pretoria without passing a mention of the fathers of apartheid.

With so many problems faced by the country, many people are not happy with this initiative, because they feel the millions spent on these names could have help in building new schools, hospitals, clinics and more. In the other hand some believe its a good initiative seen that most of the fallen heroes of the past are slightly forgotten and these streets were named after the king pings of Apartheid!
Delayed by a series of court cases, city workers have now begun changing signs for about 30 streets, mainly downtown. The old names are still there, but struck out by a red line, hanging alongside the new.