What's in a name?

One of the greatest things about our wonderful country is that life is never, ever boring (and I'm not just talking about people getting shot on the news or the Christmas Holiday Road Death Toll). Go to Perth, Copenhagen or Zurich if you want to see civil service at work efficiently. Hang around here, and just when you thought you heard it all, something unbelievable crops up to rasie the bar higher again. I just can't wait to go into the traffic department to renew my driver's next month, especially since reports that they are battling to process re-issues at the moment with the possibility of losing it and a subsequent retest(#4 it would be).


Now what have we here? Once you have recovered from the shock of seeing your first witch, you might be able to pluck up the courage to read the charming mej Du Plessis's full name. It's also further proof to my theory that there is an infitisimal number of names for afrikaans girls, as you can (and many, many parents do) just make them up. Afrikaans boys are however restricted to the biblical ones translated from english(John -> Jan/Johan, Peter -> Pieter/Piet, David -> Dawid), but of course any popular surname will do as a first name too (De Wet, Van Wyk, Marais, Erasmus etc.) The real shocker is that it took a whole 5 years for this to get on the interweb.

If it's not instantly clear what's going on here (for those souties around who only did afrikaans for 10 years during school), here's what she was trying to convey.
Forenames: Aviance Anmerí (let op na strepie op i)
translation (take note of accent figure on 'i').


Whilst on the subject, lets look at AB de Villiers-is AB his name, or is it an abreviation for two names; and if so, what are they? the first correct comment wins five Deep South Dollars