New approach to name changes

PRESIDENT Kgalema Motlanthe has proposed a new approach to place name changes, saying that since the advent of democracy in 1994, few things have been as divisive as the process of changing apartheid and colonial names. This does not need to be the case. Instead, handled properly, the re-examination of place names could be used as a vehicle for nation building, he wrote on the ANCs website yesterday. Just as the cities, towns, streets, rivers and mountains of this country belong to all its...