Eyewitness News: De Lille defends street renaming

Rahima Essop | 27 September 2012
CAPE TOWN - Mayor Patricia de Lille on Wednesday told a city council meeting the renaming of roads is being used to build a more inclusive city.

Street renaming and housing issues topped the council's agenda.

On Heritage Day, Native Yard One in Gugulethu was renamed Steve Biko Drive, marking the start of a campaign to replace apartheid era street names in the township.

Biko was opposed to apartheid and died while in detention on 12 September 1977.

The public is required to make submissions for 91 streets and neighbourhoods in Gugulethu.

While that move has been widely welcomed, Cape Town's Renaming Programme has sparked some controversy.

Freedom Front Plus Councillor Andre Fourie criticised the decision to change Coen Steytler Avenue.

But de Lille told the council that family participation is central to the process.

“I have interacted with the families that are unhappy. I’ve interacted with the Jan Smuts and the Omar family. Similarly, we will be able to do the same with the Coen Steytler family.”

In August, a decision was taken to change Coen Steytler to Walter Sisulu Avenue.

Hendrik Verwoerd Drive will be renamed after Afrikaans writer Uys Krige.

The initiative will cost R800,000.

(Edited by Lindiwe Mlandu)

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