LETTER: Road name changes are long overdue
Foreshore roads in Cape Town were named by Afrikaner nationalists to honour racist leaders
Peter Bruce’s column was headlined: “Ionic columns will fall but only in slo-mo” (June 10). But after 26 years of democracy monuments to racism have not yet fallen in Cape Town. On the Foreshore road names honour and glorify the leaders of racism in their generations: Hertzog Boulevard, DF Malan Street and Hans Strijdom Avenue.
JBM Hertzog was the father of the statutory “whites only” colour bar. He fought the 1929 election under the highly racist “Black Peril” manifesto, with much use of the k-word. Malan was the father of apartheid. He fought the 1948 election with the slogan: “Die k*f*r op sy plek; die k**l** uit die land”. Strijdom’s election slogan was “baasskap”; he removed from the common voters’ roll the minority of coloured men who then had the parliamentary franchise...
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