CHRIS ROPER: Why the outcry over Gqeberha?
The recent name changes in SA have elicited a flood of whining and clichéd complaints. It’s hard not to see racism, entitlement and sheer stupidity in those responses
04 March 2021 - 05:00
There are always two sides to a story, they’ll tell you. They’re wrong — as "they" so often are. Stories aren’t boxes. They don’t have sides, and they don’t hold a finite amount of meaning waiting to be safely unpacked. There are always infinite interpretations of a story, and exegesis can often be a random affair, based on who you are and what you need to believe. Oh, and how much time you spend on Twitter.
Last week, The Guardian reports, 50 upper and lower house members of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party opposed a legal change that would allow women to keep their birth name after marriage...
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