The proposed name changes to four towns in the Dr Beyers Naude Municipality are not in residents’ best interest.
Residents are plagued by poor service delivery and related problems.
The proposed name changes will have unacceptably high financial implications for all spheres of government, while making no contribution to poverty alleviation, infrastructure development or local economic growth.
The Covid-19 pandemic, dire economic circumstances and consequent financial implications have exacerbated the infrastructure shortfalls and other problems in the Municipality.
Government should turn its focus to ensuring residents’ wellbeing and service delivery, instead of putting even more pressure on the Municipality’s limited resources.
It is, furthermore, unacceptable that the ANC government wants to change towns’ names in an attempt to annihilate the history and development of those towns.
These name changes amount to a breach of the 1994 compromise where parties agreed that municipalities will be given new names, while towns and cities will retain their names.
Therefore, the Municipality is called Dr Beyers Naude, while the towns of Graaff-Reinet, Aberdeen, Nieu-Bethesda and Adendorp retain their names in recognition and equal representation of their history and diversity.
I, the undersigned, herewith express my objection to the proposed name changes of Graaff-Reinet to Robert Sebukwe or Fred Hufkie, Aberdeen to Camdeboo, Nieu-Bethesda to Kwa Noheleni and Adendorp to Kwa Mseki Bishop Limba based on the aforementioned reasons.
Stop the proposed name changes in the Dr Beyers Naude Municipality
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