It seems the ANC is following the Boer model adopted after 1948 of renaming everything in their honour. Roberts Heights became Voortrekkerhoogter despite no voortrekker being involved in its inauguration. At least the Boers maintained what they inherited from the British.
The latest new curtains for old windows sees the renaming of East London to KuGompo. Where I live — 32 years after so-called liberation — in a Native Unit, on an untarred road that has no name, my house is a number and often we have no electricity or water. Crime and pollution are the norm, and service delivery is just a word to be used when addressing their hangers on.
A better life for all they will trot out again on Human Rights Day in March as they trample on the human dignity of the majority. The politicians and all those involved in the process can rename this city whatever they want, it will always have been founded by an 1820 settler John Bailie, or are they going to re-write that too? There is no private investment, businesses are going out of business because we have the highest municipal taxes in the country, there is no maintenance and we all know about the city’s record — Mdantsane swimming pool, Victoria Ground, the Stoep, Ebuhlanti — hundreds of millions of rand spent and nothing to show.
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This name changentoni ntoni (what, what?)is just the same, millions will have to be wasted with new signage, stationary and countless other things like having to then rename East London Museum, the Port of East London and many other places. This is because these prejudiced elected officials do not understand that all the money they spend and all the money they waste comes from someone else, sadly not even from Mdantsane.
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