I don't particularly care what you want to call a street. All I know is each time the Pretoria municipality (I am uncertain of its name at this stage) tries to change names, they're upsetting enough people to such an extent that there is legal action.
Some Boer commando that apparently never happened in South Africa. Because we all know history in South Africa started with Apartheid, right?
Nation building my lillywhite ass
This cannot possibly be indicative of 'nation building' when the municipality alienates its own people to such an extent each time. Who cares what the road is called? A rose by any other name and all that. Fact remains service delivery has not exactly improved, and isn't this what we pay rates and taxes for after all?
It appears that the municipality is fighting the law of identity. Well, good luck to them.
On another note, a list of proposed Pretoria name changes indicates the following:
All I can make of this is that there's a guy named Steve Biko who has to tie the shoes of the mayor every morning, because clearly sher is retarded (sher is my third-person, singular personal pronoun that indicates 'he or she', in case you were wondering).
What is the point of taking three distinct roads and naming them all the same name? What exactly is the point of taking another road and splitting it up into four different sections, each with its own name? Surely, you could've left that road in tact (or split it into Church and Steve Biko, for argument's sake) and then you could've named the three similar roads unique names? Goes to show, there's no rational thought behind the name changes. It's all about ideology or (idle-LOL-ogy).
On another note, a list of proposed Pretoria name changes indicates the following:
- Was Beatrix Street, now Steve Biko.
- Was Mears Street, now Steve Biko.
- Was Voortrekker Street, now Steve Biko.
All I can make of this is that there's a guy named Steve Biko who has to tie the shoes of the mayor every morning, because clearly sher is retarded (sher is my third-person, singular personal pronoun that indicates 'he or she', in case you were wondering).
What is the point of taking three distinct roads and naming them all the same name? What exactly is the point of taking another road and splitting it up into four different sections, each with its own name? Surely, you could've left that road in tact (or split it into Church and Steve Biko, for argument's sake) and then you could've named the three similar roads unique names? Goes to show, there's no rational thought behind the name changes. It's all about ideology or (idle-LOL-ogy).
Boer is beautiful too
Perhaps Steve was right: Black is beautiful. But Boer can be beautiful too, and just like people still refer to Istanbul as Constantinople colloquially, people are going to refer to Pretoria as Pretoria for centuries to come. Name changing to enforce your hegemony is not particularly effective, so why not focus on potholes and service delivery? You know, the reasons why we pay the municipality?
1 comment:
Totally agree! I still call the airport Jan Smuts! It's never gonna change! I don't even know the other name for Pietersburg, or any other changed name town, street or anything else. I'm 39 so it's not like I don't want to change, I just do care for wasting money! Spend the money on education, service delivery, decent wages for all government employees and we will have less strikes, less corruption, pretty much less of everything negative in this country! One street name change = new map books, new street names, new letterheads for all companies, new signage, new branding! Satnav doesn't work for anyone, so we upgrade, at our cost!!! Please Zuma, spend your time more productively! Maybe if you don't do all these bulls#it things we wouldn't mind you choosing new curtains for your house!
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