last year SkyNews was given the boot by the SA government in favor of Al Jazeera...
There was & is a lot of resistance to the names changes. Pretoria was named after the Boer equivalent of George Washington: named Andries Pretorius. There are many people of all races who are in favour of keeping the name Pretoria. On April 19 2007 a group of Boers renamed Nelson Mandela drive in Pretoria to General de la Rey avenue.
Read more at: southafricasucks.blogspot.com/2007/04/boers-with-balls-repossessing-our.html
General Koos de la Rey was a famous Boer General during the second Anglo-Boer War. There is a great Afrikaans music video (which is up on Youtube) about him by Bok van Blerk aka Louis Pepler. I have read reports about young Boers trowing street signs into the river as a protest against the renaming of streets & the overt marginalization of their culture & past.