Calls for Cape Town International Airport name change

[Harmonic]

But, but, they did come all that way and made South Africa great, didn't they?

 

[ForceFate]

But, but, they did come all that way and made South Africa great, didn't they?

...for themselves, and hell for everyone else for a while.

On a serious note, Cape Town International is fine...as it is.

 

[Mirai]

Jou Ma Se Airport sounds good....

 

[Corelli]

Cape Town International is fine.

We can change it to Jan Van Riebeeck International. He was a medical doctor who wanted to start a halfway station that saved the lives of tens of thousands of sailors. He never planned to colonize, yet others that booted him decided to.

He saved more lives than the Khoisan or Desmond Tutu.

Kratoa, I am laughing The writer made up her own version and its soo far away from truthful. Imagine someone with no knowledge of history writing a story about facts that they never checked up on. Yip Kratoa the movie is total rubbish historically. Dont make me laugh.

 

[Corelli]

Cape Town is based on the layout of the land and not after any person etc. It's a Cape (surrounded by 3x sides with water. Kaap de Goede Hoop was called because when the sailors saw it, they knew there was a place to stop for fresh supplies. Thank you Jan van Riebeeck for the halfway station for the VOC.

Ironically the VOC also controlled Taiwan, Dejima in Japan(Nagasaki bay) and Java (Jakarta - Indonesia). In matter of fact for quite a few centuries Taiwan was Dutch run, then handed back to China who signed it over to the Japanese in 1895. The Japanese controlled it till 1946 when it went back to China (yet with some resistance and the Taiwanese natives fought against the Chinese imperial army. When the Imperial army lost to the Communists, 2 million troops invaded Taiwan and massacred 150 000 locals. They have been in control ever since of Taiwan.

 

[Corelli]

F*** him. Colonial scum





/s

Probably because your view of history is so dimwitted.

1. He never colonized. He had an agreement with the Khoisan to setup a halfway stop to 1. protect them from portuguese and spanish slavery ships. 2. supply station to prevent the deaths of tens of thousands at ocean (yip we werent taking planes then, you were literally months at sea (tincans only came later too- so you needed fresh food or you would....DIE) and tens of thousands died.

But hey, who cares hey. The ones that colonized booted him out. Yet he kept working for the group that ran Taiwan and Dejima (Japan).

The VOC had multiple smaller companies as part of them. It was the protective umbrella, and it wasnt just the Dutch, but pretty much everyone involved.

 

[Defonotaltaccount]

Che Guevara ?

 

[Harmonic]

Probably because your view of history is so dimwitted.

1. He never colonized. He had an agreement with the Khoisan to setup a halfway stop to 1. protect them from portuguese and spanish slavery ships. 2. supply station to prevent the deaths of tens of thousands at ocean (yip we werent taking planes then, you were literally months at sea (tincans only came later too- so you needed fresh food or you would....DIE) and tens of thousands died.

But hey, who cares hey. The ones that colonized booted him out. Yet he kept working for the group that ran Taiwan and Dejima (Japan).

The VOC had multiple smaller companies as part of them. It was the protective umbrella, and it wasnt just the Dutch, but pretty much everyone involved.

You didn't spot the /s at the bottom? Dimwit

 

[nightjar]

Cape Town is based on the layout of the land and not after any person etc. It's a Cape (surrounded by 3x sides with water. Kaap de Goede Hoop was called because when the sailors saw it, they knew there was a place to stop for fresh supplies. Thank you Jan van Riebeeck for the halfway station for the VOC.

Bartolomeu Dias called it the Cape of Storms in 1488 but his employer, John II of Portugal, renamed it Cape of Good Hope.

 

[Iwojima]

Then mountains and rivers shouldn't have names. No? Yes?

Note that I explicitly said "changing" the name.

 

[ForceFate]

Note that I explicitly said "changing" the name.

Unfortunately it's the victors (or should I say, people who hold all the cards) that get the privilege to name things the way they want.