{"id":397,"date":"2012-03-28T19:05:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T19:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=397"},"modified":"2012-03-28T19:09:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T19:09:44","slug":"dutch-party-upset-over-pretoria-street-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"Dutch party upset over Pretoria street names"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_400\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-400\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bosma_martin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-400\" title=\"bosma_martin\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bosma_martin-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Bosma\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bosma_martin-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bosma_martin.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martin Bosma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Dutch political party has demanded action from the Dutch Cabinet in support of the retention of Afrikaans street names in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Netherlands Embassy situated in Queen Wilhelmina avenue should refuse to accept a new name,\u201d the \u201cDe Partij voor de Vrijheid\u201d (the Party for Freedom), PVV, said in a statement issued in The Hague on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The suggestion was contained in a parliamentay question to Dutch deputy minister Halbe Zijlstra on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zijlstra was asked if he was aware of the planned name changes and whether he thought the plans were a \u201cslap in the face of the Dutch royal family\u201d.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PVV said the ANC planned to change 27 Pretoria streetnames, including Beatrix street and Queen Wilhelmina avenue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many of the names were a reminder of the anti-colonial struggle of the independent Boer republics against the British empire, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe name Queen Wilhelmina avenue is an ode to the young queen who in 1900 dispatched a Dutch warship to fetch a beleaguered President Kruger,\u201d PVV parliamentarian Martin Bosma said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other street names commemorating historical characters were \u201cVoortrekkers\u201d with Netherlands backgrounds who helped establish Pretoria, the PVV politician said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PVV is a minority rightwing partner in the current governing Dutch coalition, led by the controversial politician Geert Wilders. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch political party has demanded action from the Dutch Cabinet in support of the retention of Afrikaans street names in Pretoria. \u201cThe Netherlands Embassy situated in Queen Wilhelmina avenue should refuse to accept a new name,\u201d the \u201cDe Partij voor de Vrijheid\u201d (the Party for Freedom), PVV, said in a statement issued in The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=397\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dutch party upset over Pretoria street names&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[332,338,336,337],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-netherlands","tag-paul-kruger","tag-pvv","tag-queen-wilhelmina"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bosma_martin.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}