Is renaming geographical areas important?

[etienne_marais]

London was founded by the ancient Romans as "Londinium"

I know. Before that there most probably dwelled Celts of pre-Roman times. Who in turn slaughtered Britons of other times and/or displaced them.

 

[Decarin]

I do not mind the name changes, IF....
1. Do not cost much.
2. Even if in another language, be something neutral, not a person's name, or 'death to all whities' or something like that.
3. Our african languages do have words that roll nicely of the tongue. By all means use some of those nice names.

I recall some time ago they wanted to rename Cape Town to something. DO not recall what, but the name was actually easy to pronounce and sounded cool.

eThekwini is actually one of these, but the issue is it replaces Durban which is about the simplest city name in the entire country.

 

[Magnum]

if we can rename things why can't we renumber?

Spelling is a pain for them. Let us not encourage them to learn Mathematics.... It can only end badly.

 

[noxibox]

Depends what you mean by important. As in actually beneficial to the country or people, then no. For the purposes of distracting people as part of your campaign to hold onto power, then yes.

 

[noxibox]

Yes it is
Please rename all English towns and cities to an African name asap.

Don't a lot of them already have Afrikaans names?

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Don't a lot of them already have Afrikaans names?

African names = gfhjkdfghdghdgvbnfdjkgv
not afrikaans

 

[noxibox]

In 50 years from now there will be hardly any sign of colonization or Apartheid left. All statues will be gone, cities and roads renamed, old infrastructure dismantled.

Any talk of blaming colonization or Apartheid and a whole generation of people will look around and scratch their heads not having a clue what government are talking about.

I blame Apartheid for all that renaming and destruction of infrastructure. See they'll be able to keep up the blame game.

 

[noxibox]

African names = gfhjkdfghdghdgvbnfdjkgv
not afrikaans

Ah, so like Wales then.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Ah, so like Wales then.

sorry, i dont speak gaylick

 

[Gozzy]

Nah I think rename all you want, coz you gonna do it anyway, leave the good old and successful area names in peoples memories instead, and let those be remembered as such, so that the world can see everything the Gov touches turns to crap.

 

[noxibox]

It IS important, but not AS important as other pressing social issues like service delivery, income inequality, crime and poverty. Once you have solved or addressed all of those issues, then you can move on to other issues like geographical naming, etc. it is ludicrous in a country like South Africa, that we have to borrow money to roll out a vaccine, but we waste money on things like this.

And if they addressed all those there'd be no need for changing names to distract the population and garner votes.

Its VerwoeRdburg. You keep on spelling it wrong. Verwoedburg means Very Angry Town

I'd be very angry too if I had to live there.

 

[Decarin]

Nah I think rename all you want, coz you gonna do it anyway, leave the good old and successful area names in peoples memories instead, and let those be remembered as such, so that the world can see everything the Gov touches turns to crap.

I'm okay with renaming Pietermaritzburg to "Dumpburg" or "Smogville" because thanks to mismanagement the dump seems to catch fire and choke us in its noxious smoke, which seems to now be PMB's defining feature. That and lumpy roads....

 

[ebendl]

I'm okay with renaming Pietermaritzburg to "Dumpburg" or "Smogville" because thanks to mismanagement the dump seems to catch fire and choke us in its noxious smoke, which seems to now be PMB's defining feature. That and lumpy roads....

haha, following your convention they can just rename Pretoria / City of Tshwane to "Pothole".

 

[zophas]

South Africa has become the anus of the world. Just name every town Anus1, Anus2, Anus3...etc.

 

[pinball wizard]

Its VerwoeRdburg. You keep on spelling it wrong. Verwoedburg means Very Angry Town

I been there. Full of angry afrikaaners.

 

[JohnStarr]

I know. Before that there most probably dwelled Celts of pre-Roman times. Who in turn slaughtered Britons of other times and/or displaced them.

Trojans, not Celts. The Internet is full of facts.

 

[etienne_marais]

Trojans, not Celts. The Internet is full of facts.

Oh come on, there were widespread settlements of Celts pre-Saxon, pre-Roman times.

 

[Stonemason]

I been there. Full of angry afrikaaners.

Its Afrikaners with one a. You really should work on your spelling. I recommend reading a book or two a week.

 

[pinball wizard]

Its Afrikaners with one a. You really should work on your spelling. I recommend reading a book or two a week.

See? Told you they're an angry bunch of light in the trousers men up there.

 

[Stonemason]

Can I tell you how many ****s I give?

I hear you, but people are cruel. Just because of a few basic spelling mistakes, they will start calling you stupid and nobody wants that.