Download or read book South African Language Rights Monitor 2007 written by Mariana Kriel and published by UJ Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 2007, language-related issues were sources of acrimonious conflict in South Africa. In Durban, the eThekwini Municipality embarked on a street-renaming process that sparked widespread controversy. In Pretoria and Potchefstroom, Afrikaner activists continued their campaign against the renaming of their hometowns as ‘Tshwane’ and ‘Tlokwe’. In Ermelo, a high school decided to take the provincial education department to court in an attempt to regain its Afrikaans-only status.