The name changes of, among others, Port Elizabeth, Maclear and Uitenhage, serve as clear proof that the ANC considers cheap politicking and its failed ideology more important than the financial crisis in which South Africa finds itself.
The costs related to changing place names are immense and the money should rather have been used to bring economic relief on grass-roots level in the Eastern Cape province.
Various parties participated in the official processes and pointed out that the project is not financially viable.
This is a dear price for taxpayers to pay for cheap ANC politicking just before the municipal elections.
The ANC driving its transformation agenda amid a pandemic and economic crisis is unacceptable, especially seeing as the people of the Eastern Cape are constantly being delivered severe blows by, among other things, an ongoing drought.
For many people in South Africa, the consequences of the Covid-19 lockdown regulations were devastating – people like sports persons and artists – the money wasted on the senseless name changes would have been put to better use to help these people get back on their feet.
New place names do not ensure sustainable job creation nor the security of an income for anyone. The ANC with its warped ideology has shown time and again that it is quite willing to let people suffer needlessly for the sake of transformation.
Read the original article in Afrikaans by Theo Coetzee on FF Plus
