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The council is also considering 35 other name changes. It wants to make place names more African. Many South African towns and cities have names that are reminders of colonialism and European rule. Pretoria was named in 1855 after a white man called Andries Pretorius. He settled on the site of present day Pretoria in the mid-eighteenth century. ................
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