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KWAZULU-NATAL
A name change for KZN?
Mon, 10 Jul 2006
King Goodwill Zwelithini's suggestion that KwaZulu-Natal's name be changed should be supported because the current name is associated with suffering and humiliation, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) said on Monday.
"Natal is a colonial name. The name was coined by Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese navigator because he arrived in this part of African on 25th December 1497. Natal means Christmas Day in Portuguese.
"But Natal has also caused much suffering, dispossession, humiliation of African people and murder of African leaders there.
Blood and battles
"Much blood was caused to Africans at the Battle of Encome (Blood River) where thousands were killed for protecting their own country against the invading colonialists greedy of African land," said PAC president Motsoko Pheko.
"King Cetshwayo was dethroned and banished for fighting the colonial aggressors who dispossessed his people. King Dinizulu was banished to St Helena for same. It is the Natal British colonial administration which sent Langalibalele to Robben Island after dispossessing his people of their land. It is the same Natal that hanged Bambatha for leading the 1906 war of national resistance against British colonialism in Natal."
He continued: "Natal like all other colonial names is dripping with the blood of the African people. History must be rewritten."
'Stop colonial name worship'
He said Africans should stop worshipping colonial names, some of which he considered amusing.
"Orange Free State gave the impression that millions of tons of oranges grew here. In fact, no oranges grow there."
"Names tainted with the genocide and holocaust cannot be kept by any self-respecting nation except the most docile people on earth," Pheko said.
The Mercury reported that Zwelithini called for the history of the Zulu nation to be rewritten to correct "falsifications" of history, and for the name of the province to be reconsidered.
Pheko suggested that the province be called simply KwaZulu or "some other appropriate name".
KING ZWELITHINI SHOULD MIND HIS OWN BUSINESS!! WHO THE HELL DOES HE THINK HE IS? THE NAMES ALREADY BEEN CHANGED FROM NATAL TO KWAZULU NATAL AND NOW ITS BEING CHANGED AGAIN TO KWAZULU!
WHY DOESN'T HE JUST THROW ALL WHITES OUT OF KZN OR "KZ" BECAUSE THE NEW NAME CHANGE STATES THAT THEY WANT TO! KWAZULU, NOT ALL OF US ARE ZULU! @LEAST LEAVE THE NON-ZULU PEOPLE WITH SOME KIND OF WORD IN THEIR PROVINCES NAME!!
LEAVE NATAL IN THE NAME!!
A name change for KZN?
Mon, 10 Jul 2006
King Goodwill Zwelithini's suggestion that KwaZulu-Natal's name be changed should be supported because the current name is associated with suffering and humiliation, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) said on Monday.
"Natal is a colonial name. The name was coined by Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese navigator because he arrived in this part of African on 25th December 1497. Natal means Christmas Day in Portuguese.
"But Natal has also caused much suffering, dispossession, humiliation of African people and murder of African leaders there.
Blood and battles
"Much blood was caused to Africans at the Battle of Encome (Blood River) where thousands were killed for protecting their own country against the invading colonialists greedy of African land," said PAC president Motsoko Pheko.
"King Cetshwayo was dethroned and banished for fighting the colonial aggressors who dispossessed his people. King Dinizulu was banished to St Helena for same. It is the Natal British colonial administration which sent Langalibalele to Robben Island after dispossessing his people of their land. It is the same Natal that hanged Bambatha for leading the 1906 war of national resistance against British colonialism in Natal."
He continued: "Natal like all other colonial names is dripping with the blood of the African people. History must be rewritten."
'Stop colonial name worship'
He said Africans should stop worshipping colonial names, some of which he considered amusing.
"Orange Free State gave the impression that millions of tons of oranges grew here. In fact, no oranges grow there."
"Names tainted with the genocide and holocaust cannot be kept by any self-respecting nation except the most docile people on earth," Pheko said.
The Mercury reported that Zwelithini called for the history of the Zulu nation to be rewritten to correct "falsifications" of history, and for the name of the province to be reconsidered.
Pheko suggested that the province be called simply KwaZulu or "some other appropriate name".
KING ZWELITHINI SHOULD MIND HIS OWN BUSINESS!! WHO THE HELL DOES HE THINK HE IS? THE NAMES ALREADY BEEN CHANGED FROM NATAL TO KWAZULU NATAL AND NOW ITS BEING CHANGED AGAIN TO KWAZULU!
WHY DOESN'T HE JUST THROW ALL WHITES OUT OF KZN OR "KZ" BECAUSE THE NEW NAME CHANGE STATES THAT THEY WANT TO! KWAZULU, NOT ALL OF US ARE ZULU! @LEAST LEAVE THE NON-ZULU PEOPLE WITH SOME KIND OF WORD IN THEIR PROVINCES NAME!!
LEAVE NATAL IN THE NAME!!
