BY Barry Bateman

Civil rights group Afriforum will lodge an urgent application in the North Gauteng High Court on Tuesday to halt street name changes in Pretoria. 

Last week the Tshwane Municipality started replacing street name signs with the names of those adopted at a council meeting in March. 

Afriforum’s Willie Spies said they have chosen to go to the courts to tackle this matter because the Tshwane Municipality has ignored their request to postpone the street name changes. 

Last week the municipality erected the first – General Louis Botha Drive was replaced by January Masilela Drive.

Spies said it was unfortunate that the municipality went ahead with the controversial decision without properly addressing urgent service delivery issues. 

It is unclear if the municipality will oppose the urgent application. 

(Edited by Clare Matthes)