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Lifetime Bluff resident serving his third term in office as representative
of the area. Member of the Democratic Alliance.
of the area. Member of the Democratic Alliance.
This weeks Councillor comments
| Duncan Du Bois |
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| Bluff Ward 66 Sub Pages |
PROPOSED STREET NAME
CHANGES:
There are TWO roads on the Bluff that are up
for name changes: Gray Park (Dr Hoosen
Haffejee)and Bideford, runs down past
Grosvenor Girls to Tara Rd, - Zinto Cele.
Please register individual objections to these
and any or all others to which you object.
It is felt that this will be more effective than a
single petition.
Cite whatever reasons you feel are
appropriate, for example, inconvenience,
waste of money, scale of needs,
historical ( Henry Gray, in the case of Gray
Park Rd, was the original owner and
developer of the Brighton Beach area a
century ago), reasons of heritage, ideology.
Email to : corporategis@durban.gov.za
Fax : 031 311 4024
Post : Municipal Manager P O Box 1014
Durban 4000
You are also erncouraged to object to the
proposed renaming of other streets eg
Moore Rd to Che Guevara; Gardiner St to
Dorothy Nyembe; Northway to Kenneth
Kaunda, Kingsway to Andrew Zondo;
Broadway to Walter Sisulu; Umbilo Rd to
Robert Sobukwe; Field St to Joe Slovo; Old
Fort Rd to Archie Gumede and dozens of
other purely ideological proposals.
Get these objections in before 12 October.
OBJECTION TO STREET RENAMING:
Heritage is something that is added to, not
subtracted from.
The current list of proposed name changes fails to
heed the above dictum.
Instead it reflects a purely ideological bias and quite
clearly seeks to impose an ideological presence in
as many wards as possible.
If names were offensive and local residents in
sufficient numbers wanted to have those street
names changed, there would be merit in entertaining
the process.
But in every case the proposed name changes are
arbitrary and not based on any actual odium against
original names.
Indeed, by the very choice being proposed the
exercise is generating odium where none previously
existed.
For those reasons I object to this exercise as it is
structured.
I also object because of the waste of money involved,
the shocking lack of prioritisation of needs in the
Metro, the unnecessary
inconvenience involved and the fact that this is being
done not in a spirit of nation-building but in a manner
of baasskap and triumphalism.
For that latter reason I totally reject the exercise.
Cllr D L Du Bois
CHANGES:
There are TWO roads on the Bluff that are up
for name changes: Gray Park (Dr Hoosen
Haffejee)and Bideford, runs down past
Grosvenor Girls to Tara Rd, - Zinto Cele.
Please register individual objections to these
and any or all others to which you object.
It is felt that this will be more effective than a
single petition.
Cite whatever reasons you feel are
appropriate, for example, inconvenience,
waste of money, scale of needs,
historical ( Henry Gray, in the case of Gray
Park Rd, was the original owner and
developer of the Brighton Beach area a
century ago), reasons of heritage, ideology.
Email to : corporategis@durban.gov.za
Fax : 031 311 4024
Post : Municipal Manager P O Box 1014
Durban 4000
You are also erncouraged to object to the
proposed renaming of other streets eg
Moore Rd to Che Guevara; Gardiner St to
Dorothy Nyembe; Northway to Kenneth
Kaunda, Kingsway to Andrew Zondo;
Broadway to Walter Sisulu; Umbilo Rd to
Robert Sobukwe; Field St to Joe Slovo; Old
Fort Rd to Archie Gumede and dozens of
other purely ideological proposals.
Get these objections in before 12 October.
OBJECTION TO STREET RENAMING:
Heritage is something that is added to, not
subtracted from.
The current list of proposed name changes fails to
heed the above dictum.
Instead it reflects a purely ideological bias and quite
clearly seeks to impose an ideological presence in
as many wards as possible.
If names were offensive and local residents in
sufficient numbers wanted to have those street
names changed, there would be merit in entertaining
the process.
But in every case the proposed name changes are
arbitrary and not based on any actual odium against
original names.
Indeed, by the very choice being proposed the
exercise is generating odium where none previously
existed.
For those reasons I object to this exercise as it is
structured.
I also object because of the waste of money involved,
the shocking lack of prioritisation of needs in the
Metro, the unnecessary
inconvenience involved and the fact that this is being
done not in a spirit of nation-building but in a manner
of baasskap and triumphalism.
For that latter reason I totally reject the exercise.
Cllr D L Du Bois
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STREET RENAMING: NYERERE,
GUEVARA, KAUNDA - NAMES THAT
BELONG IN THE DUSTBIN OF
HISTORY
As foreigners with an alien culture Che
Guevara, Kenneth Kaunda and Julius
Nyerere have no connection whatsoever with
Durban.
From that point of view alone, it is totally
inappropriate even to consider, let alone
propose, that names of streets be changed
and named after them.
Guevara was a revolutionary who espoused
guerrilla warfare as a means to social utopia.
The vast majority of people of all colours in
Durban, to say nothing of South Africa, have
never endorsed such ideological claptrap. His
death in a botched attempt to promote
revolution in Bolivia in 1967 pretty much sums
up his significance.
Kaunda inflicted himself on Zambia for 27
years. He bankrupted the country, imprisoned
and banned opposition. He was a dictator -
not a democrat. The politics he practised was
totally out of character with that upheld by
South Africa's constitution.
He was not a role model for anything except
corruption, injustice and poverty.
Nyerere implemented a form of servitude in
Tanzania by means of his ujamaa policy of
collective villages. In this way he virtually
incarcerated 13 of Tanzania's 15 million
inhabitants between 1967 and 1980 when he
disbanded ujamaa. This policy made the pass
laws and the homelands of apartheid look like
a children's picnic because it not only
resorted to forced removals and coercion to
relocate people to so-called villages in the
midddle of nowhere, but also deployed
military means to prevent them escaping.
Under Nyerere Tanzania received more than
$20 billion in foreign aid - the Marshall Plan
after World War 2 was only $17,5 billion - yet
Tanzania remained one of the poorest states
in Africa.
Only a cynic or a hidebound idealogue would
ever consider naming anything after Nyerere.
Nyerere, Guevara, Kaunda are names that
belong in the dustbin of history.
There can never be any justification for
naming anything in South Africa after such
people.
Cllr D L Du Bois
Ward 66
GUEVARA, KAUNDA - NAMES THAT
BELONG IN THE DUSTBIN OF
HISTORY
As foreigners with an alien culture Che
Guevara, Kenneth Kaunda and Julius
Nyerere have no connection whatsoever with
Durban.
From that point of view alone, it is totally
inappropriate even to consider, let alone
propose, that names of streets be changed
and named after them.
Guevara was a revolutionary who espoused
guerrilla warfare as a means to social utopia.
The vast majority of people of all colours in
Durban, to say nothing of South Africa, have
never endorsed such ideological claptrap. His
death in a botched attempt to promote
revolution in Bolivia in 1967 pretty much sums
up his significance.
Kaunda inflicted himself on Zambia for 27
years. He bankrupted the country, imprisoned
and banned opposition. He was a dictator -
not a democrat. The politics he practised was
totally out of character with that upheld by
South Africa's constitution.
He was not a role model for anything except
corruption, injustice and poverty.
Nyerere implemented a form of servitude in
Tanzania by means of his ujamaa policy of
collective villages. In this way he virtually
incarcerated 13 of Tanzania's 15 million
inhabitants between 1967 and 1980 when he
disbanded ujamaa. This policy made the pass
laws and the homelands of apartheid look like
a children's picnic because it not only
resorted to forced removals and coercion to
relocate people to so-called villages in the
midddle of nowhere, but also deployed
military means to prevent them escaping.
Under Nyerere Tanzania received more than
$20 billion in foreign aid - the Marshall Plan
after World War 2 was only $17,5 billion - yet
Tanzania remained one of the poorest states
in Africa.
Only a cynic or a hidebound idealogue would
ever consider naming anything after Nyerere.
Nyerere, Guevara, Kaunda are names that
belong in the dustbin of history.
There can never be any justification for
naming anything in South Africa after such
people.
Cllr D L Du Bois
Ward 66
OBJECTION TO PROPOSED RENAMING OF GARDINER AND FIELD
STREETS
The above streets, together with West and Smith Streets constituted the original four streets
of the village of Durban.
Capt Allen Gardiner was the actual founder of Durban in June 1835. William Field was an
early citizen of Durban. In the late 1840s and early 1850s he was a Collector of
Customs at the port and later a magistrate.
The diversity of this country's heritage is acknowledged in the Preamble of the Constitution
where it also states that respect should be given to those who have worked to build and
develop South Africa.
Gardiner and Field were two such people who, through initiative and expertise, laid the
foundations of Durban. To remove their names from the two core streets that were once
central to the village of Durban flies in the face of the Preamble of the Constitution.
Moreover, it ignores the fundamental principle of heritage: it is accrued not deleted.
Finally, to change the name of any street and name it after someone else is a secondhand
tribute - perhaps even an insult.
Hands off our heritage !
STREETS
The above streets, together with West and Smith Streets constituted the original four streets
of the village of Durban.
Capt Allen Gardiner was the actual founder of Durban in June 1835. William Field was an
early citizen of Durban. In the late 1840s and early 1850s he was a Collector of
Customs at the port and later a magistrate.
The diversity of this country's heritage is acknowledged in the Preamble of the Constitution
where it also states that respect should be given to those who have worked to build and
develop South Africa.
Gardiner and Field were two such people who, through initiative and expertise, laid the
foundations of Durban. To remove their names from the two core streets that were once
central to the village of Durban flies in the face of the Preamble of the Constitution.
Moreover, it ignores the fundamental principle of heritage: it is accrued not deleted.
Finally, to change the name of any street and name it after someone else is a secondhand
tribute - perhaps even an insult.
Hands off our heritage !
| PUBLIC MEETING Democratic Alliance Wards 66 and 67 Thursday: October 11 at 7pm Pigeon Club hall, Tara Rd Hear: Cllr Duncan Du Bois and Cllr Aubrey Snyman Addressing: # Street renaming issue # Ward and Bluff issues |
You can contact Councillor D Du Bois by e-mail @ dubois@axxess.co.za