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Xingwana notice in Government Gazette

The Pretoria “by another name” drama could go on for a long time after Friday’s announcement that Arts and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana had remove a notice for technical reasons.

Xingwana placed his notice in the January 29 Government Gazette connected to the registration of Tshwane municipal area as another name.

The notice was placed a day after Arts and Culture Minister Deputy Paul Mashatile canceled a briefing to the media in order to announce new names for a number of areas across the country.

The department declined to explain the issue but sources said the tardiness in the announcement could be because of “flaws” in the Tshwane Metro Council’s registration to the South African Geographic Names Council back in the year 2004.

A senior council official said, on condition of anonymity, the original mission statement by council was – register “City of Tshwane” as a place name.

This anonymous official, who assisted in the drafting of the application to the SAGNC, said difficulties for the council came when some councilors altered the application “and instead applied for the change of Pretoria’s name to Tshwane”.

“There was a huge outcry over the change in the application from a number of senior politicians,” he said.

He stated that the municipality decided to establish a committee managed by Professor Mzi Sirayi to investigate the issue of “another name.”
But, according to the former official, the council’s public participation process was flawed.

“Instead of the public participation process being for the registration of City of Tshwane as a geographic name, it was to change Pretoria’s name to Tshwane,” he said.

He added that the name “Tshwane” was for the municipality which covers areas like Hammanskraal, Soshanguve, Mabopane, Winterveld and a number of agricultural holdings.

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Hip-hop mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is set for another name change he wants to be known simply as Sean John.
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The rapper, 38, has changed his stage name five times since starting out in the music industry in 1988. Combs has previously been nicknamed Puff Daddy, Puff, Puffy, P. Diddy and Diddy.

A California judge ruled Wednesday that the surviving members of Sublime can’t use the band’s name anymore with new lead singer Rome Ramirez, reports Rolling Stone.

Jeremiah Reynolds, who represents Sublime’s late singer Bradley Nowell, told the Los Angeles Times Tuesday “The point we tried to make is that we encourage these gentlemen to go out and play,” referring to Ramirez and original members Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson.

“We think they’re great musicians. We just don’t think it’s appropriate to call a group that doesn’t have Bradley and has a new lead singer Sublime. It’s consistent with Brad’s intentions that we seek to protect the name. The court agreed that Bud and Eric and the new lead singer didn’t have the right to go out and call themselves Sublime.”

Nowell’s family claims that the late singer, who died in 1996 of a heroin overdose, trademarked the Sublime name ensuring it couldn’t be used without him, according to Consequence of Sound.

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