{"id":15036,"date":"2010-12-16T11:49:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T09:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=15036"},"modified":"2011-01-01T01:02:58","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T23:02:58","slug":"cape-town-puts-nelson-mandela-and-professor-chris-barnard-on-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/cape-town-puts-nelson-mandela-and-professor-chris-barnard-on-the-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town puts Nelson Mandela and Professor Chris Barnard on the streets"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After two false starts, the City of Cape Town has approved the first four changes to\u00a0street names in the city, honouring South African greats, reports the Cape Times<\/strong>.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Nelson Mandela Boulevard will be the new name of the Eastern Boulevard, while the world’s first heart transplant specialist\u00a0Professor Christiaan Barnard will be honoured in the name of the street currently called Oswald Pirow Street.\u00a0\u00a0 Albert Lithuli, the first South African Nobel Peace Prize winner and\u00a0an ANC President, will be honoured in the street section between the Civic Centre and Artscape.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A Khoisan leader Krotoa will be honoured in a section of Castle Street, between Adderley and Burg Street.<\/p>\n

Cape Town is the last South African city to “rename apartheid era streets and places”, says the report.<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com<\/a>\u00a0 Twitter: @WhaleCottage<\/p>\n

POSTSCRIPT 1\/1\/2011<\/strong>: A relative of the Khoisan Krotoa has protested to the City of Cape Town about the use of his relative’s first name without her surname, given that the City has not consulted his family, reports the Cape Times.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Jakobus Faasen says that his relative was the first Khoi person to marry a Dutch person, and her married surname was Van Meerhoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After two false starts, the City of Cape Town has approved the first four changes to\u00a0street names in the city, honouring South African greats, reports the Cape Times. Nelson Mandela Boulevard will be the new name of the Eastern Boulevard, while the world’s first heart transplant specialist\u00a0Professor Christiaan Barnard will be honoured in the name […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,22,21],"tags":[5048,9090,6876,9094,32366,9093,32378,9086,257,3683,5243,9320,9322,9089,9088,32392,9091,9087,9092,9085,9084,9321,32373],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t