President Kgalema Motlanthe has proposed a new approach to place name changes.

A black Pretoria resident hit a white resident with a chair during public consultations over name changes to city streets, the FF+ said on Thursday.

One of Pretoria’s main streets should be renamed after former Cuban president Fidel Castro, the SACP said at a street-name hearing on Monday.

Two Freedom Front Plus councillors have claimed they were chased out of a City of Tshwane meeting after objecting to the changing of street names.

Seemingly haphazard name changes in Durban have residents up in arms.

More than 40 civil organisations have launched a joint campaign against the proposed changing of street names in Pretoria.