Is there a need for streets to be renamed?

The unveiling of the Steve Biko drive
Bandile Biko, Helen Zele, Belinda Brett.source

I think that there is no need for streets to be renamed. The government is wasting money on renaming the streets. Who cares what the name of the streets is, as long as there is a name on the street, then there is no problem.

 The Cape Town mayor Patricia De Lille unveiled the new name of NY1 road in Gugulethu on the 24^th of September, which was renamed the Steve Biko Drive. "This was because it replaced terms from the past, associated with inferiority, with names associated with power. “In the old road name, the NY refers to 'native yard'. "What was

unique in South Africa and the Black Consciousness movement was the mobilisation around asserting in the face of history for freedom. “This involved breaking down the "'mental prison" built through semantic means to emancipate the minds of black South Africans, said De Lille. I am against the renaming of the street; because if we are going to change everything from the past; I believe that we will not have history to tell about our past, people should know what is the NY , why the street was named NY, and where the NY street is.

Gugulethu is known for always striking for poor service delivery, therefore I think that, the money that was spent on the renaming of that street could have been spent on the things that the community needs the most. I am not against the fact that they are honouring our past heroes but I feel that we have done enough to honor them. The is a lot of people who were also put of the struggle but they are not being honoured i think that they are the ones who deserves to be honoured. What is your say on this?  

The Freebie Nation



COSATU's proposal for remission is going to
case the government pain. check to view source

South Africans have become lazy to do anything for themselves, because they believe that it is the duty of the government to provide each and everything for us. There is nothing wrong with the government providing us with free houses, water grand and education but we cannot expect the government to give us everything for free. Ever since South Africa has turned into a freebie nation, people do not want to do anything for them because they know that the government will provide for them for free.

I disagree with COSATU proposal of wanting R200 000 remissions from the government to help all South Africans who have being blacklisted read more . The reason why I disagree with this proposal is because there are people who are really suffering and that money could be used to help those people instead of paying for debts that people got themselves into welling.



If the government is going to pay for people’s debts, next time the government will be paying us clothes. The government is already providing too much for the people and the sad part is that people who really need help from the government do not get help. 

Enough is enough; it is time for this to come to an end people need to do things for themselves because this freebie scheme has gone too far. 

What is Julius Malema up to now?

First it was the anti-Mbeki campaign now it’s the anti-Zuma campaign. The anti-Mbeki campaign against our former president Thabo Mbeki was successful the question is will the anti Zuma campaign be successful too?  My advice to Malema is that he needs to accept that Jacob Zuma is the president of this country weather he likes it or not.   

on the 13 September Julius Malema was at the Lenasia Recreation Centre, south of Johannesburg  addressing the soldiers that were placed on special leave in 2009 for protesting at the union building.  What was supposed to be an addressing meeting turned into an anti-campaign against the president because he believes that the country’s confidence in its leadership needs to be rebuilt. What I want to know is that all along while he was part of the of the Africa National Congress (ANC) did he not see that the leadership needed to be rebuild and why didn’t he fix this problem because he was also part of leadership read more.

He also status that; “our Commander in Chief [Zuma] is engaged in other things such getting married every year “Here, children don’t have books, people in hospitals don’t have the necessary machines, and they don’t have roads or clean water.” We cannot blame the President for everything that is going wrong in this country because there are people who are assigned to make sure that all schools have books and all hospitals have the necessary machines that is needed it is the president’s job. I have to say that is about time someone put Julius in his place because enough is enough he want to keep on coursing trouble and he does not have respect for the president. 

All the reasons that Malema has provided; it is quite clear that he is doing this anti-campaign against the president because he wants to remove the president even though he claims that he is not planning to remove any government undemocratically. Yes, we don’t love this leadership... we want to remove it democratically,”