DA MP Veronica van Dyk said the party was seeking to interrogate whether the public, especially those residents living in the towns and cities, were given an adequate and reasonable time to make their voices heard on the name changes.
“Given the public outcry after minister Mthethwa gazetted the changes, it would seem as though government was simply engaging in a box-ticking exercise under the guise of 'transformation' and ultimately ignored the voices opposed to the name changes,”Van Dyk said the name changes were nothing more than a political ploy by the ANC government to garner votes in an election year.
“This is the same department that is unable to maintain historic sites as it is mandated to do and wilfully lets them fall into disrepair. It is the same minister who continues to put his ANC agenda above the lives and livelihoods his ministry should protect,” said Van Dyk. that the name changes for Port Elizabeth were a big mistake and that it would have far-reaching consequences.
“How much more money will the department be allowed to waste on vanity pet projects while South African artists and athletes are suffering?” asked Van Dyk. “And that during a pandemic that has left the economy in tatters and millions more without work and even the hope of finding employment. Minister Mthethwa should be ashamed. He is a failing minister in charge of a rotten department.”
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It’s election year and ANC is desperate for votes. If they truly wanted to change the colonial names, they would have done it in 1994.
Who is King William, who is Elizabeth? Where is London in SA? you did well Minister, and there’s still more to colonial names to change NathiMthethwaSA
We are changing Cape Town and East London next, all these colonialist names will go away one by one
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There is absolutely no reason under the sun that can ever justify colonial names on African soil in 2021.
Ag it’s Gqeberha finish and klaar.
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