The Louis Trichardt municipal council is to start a process to get the Limpopo town renamed yet again to Makhado, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported on Friday.
This month, the Supreme Court of Appeal reversed the town’s name change to Makhado on the grounds that there had not been adequate consultation with its people.
A special town council meeting on Thursday resolved to establish a task team to ensure that proper consultations are carried out in all of the municipality’s 37 wards.
”We are going to start that process immediately, but we’ll make it a point that we don’t make mistakes which happened in the past,” said mayor Gloria Mashaba.
At the meeting, 55 African National Congress, Azanian People’s Organisation, Pan Africanist Congress and United Democratic Movement councillors voted to start the process to get Louis Trichardt renamed to Makhado again.
Five Democratic Alliance and African Christian Democratic Party councillors voted against, while councillors from the Independent Democrats and local party Ximoko abstained from voting. — Sapa