Blacks changing the names of South Africa by Lawrence Auster

R.W. Johnson writes in the Wall Street Journal:

DURBAN, South Africa--South Africa is going through an orgy of name-changing. In Durban alone, the city council, run by the ruling African National Congress, has come up with 194 streets to be renamed while the local provincial authority has listed 78 rivers and 76 places to be renamed. Pretoria, the capital, is no more: It is now Tshwane, though even Africans seldom know that the name refers to a 19th-century local chief. Typically the name changes are pushed by the ANC and resisted by whites, especially Afrikaners, who see the most famous names of their own history disappearing.

Excuse me, but did the Wall Street Journal, uh, oppose the transfer of power to South Africa's black majority in the 1980s and early 1990s? Of course not, it supported it and pushed it. So, what did the neocons and economystics at the Journal think would happen when a country created by whites and ruled by whites through its entire history was turned over to blacks? Did they think that the skin color of the people running the government would be different, while everything else would remain the same?

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