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What’s in a name?: William Nicol Drive in Johannesburg, named after an administrator of the Transvaal, was last month renamed Winnie Mandela Drive. Photo: Papi Morake/Gallo Images
WILLIAM NICOL DRIVE

Name changes: The long road to a national identity

The change of street and place names rouses the country’s attention unlike anything else and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon

  • Luke Feltham
6 min read
A place of one’s own: The construction site for phase three of District Six’s redevelopment. About 60?000 people were forcibly removed from 1968 onwards and most buildings were razed. (David Harrison)
CAPE TOWN

District Six to get its name back

After becoming the ‘whites-only’ neighbourhood of Zonnebloem, another symbol of those forcefully removed from there is being reclaimed

  • Lester Kiewit
4 min read