#Mogale_City (Afrique du Sud) : des terres ou des #émeutes !
▻https://fr.squat.net/2021/05/29/mogale-city-afrique-du-sud-des-terres-ou-des-emeutes
Des habitant·e·s du quartier de Rietvallei, à Mogale City, sont descendu·e·s dans les rues le matin du lundi 24 mai 2021 pour protester contre l’attribution de terres pour construire des maisons qui ne sont jamais pour eux et elles alors qu’iels manquent de logements [1] et sont parfois en attente de logements sociaux depuis une […]
Apartheid-era school names: ’What’s in a name?’
Despite little movement from Western Cape schools around addressing apartheid-era school names, many were left asking whats in a name, and why do we need to change it?
On Monday, the Cape Argus reported that Western Cape schools in no rush to change apartheid-era names, following the news that learners at #Rietondale_High_School in #Gauteng, formerly known as #Hoërskool_Hendrik_Verwoerd, celebrated their new school name.
Since 2015, schools in the province have had the option to change their colonial or apartheid-era school names but none within the province have done so.
In response, many were left asking why would a name change even be necessary?
Maria Machelm: “What’s in a name? Why change names? Do you know how many lifetimes of memories, is in that name? How many first days, tears, joy, your first bestie, oh goodness your entire life is in that name.....Why change it? Apartheid was bad we all know that,but not everything or name has left us with bad memories...”
Thina Nelo: “We have more important things to worry about seriously!!”
Zeenat Khan: “Change the name and then? Will the students suddenly become independent thinkers and know how to file taxes? Will students become better citizens? Will violence come to an end? It’s time the authorities step out for their plush offices, paid for by taxpayers, and into the REAL world.”
Yoland van der Byl: “Actually a pointless exercise. Days gone by everything named Rhodes was changed to Voortrekker, Voortrekker to Nelson Mandela. The time will come when everything Nelson Mandela will be changed to Julius Malema or who knows. An absolute waste of money.”
Sherry Skibbe: “Maybe change names to things like integrity or and grace or hope high school names that mean something that people can be positive about.”
Edward Nemutamvuni: “It’s useless exercise. We must forgive and move on. I don’t have any problem with names and infrastructure of the past.”
Anton Dirk Bester: “Let those who pay the school bloody fees decide if the name should be changed.”
Keith Harvey: “Remember when we were told airports were to change their names to something neutral and were not to be named after politicians aligned to any political party? It did not last long.”
Kate Parr: “Don’t bother changing names...they will soon be burnt down anyway.”
Claudine Botha: “They must stand as a reminder to us of how little they thought of a vast majority of our nation and against that constant reminder we must prove them wrong by striving to be successful. Also, we have more important things to spend money on than changing names.”
Caitlin Cloete: “While I get why people feel the name change is necessary, It would be disingenuous to change the name of an Afrikaans school to the name of an indigenous/African person, if there are only like 3 black pupils at the school, as often is the case at Afrikaans schools. Maybe change the name to the name of the surrounding area. Don’t just change it if there is no intent behind it to become more integrated.”
▻https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news/apartheid-era-school-names-whats-in-a-name-32744380
#toponymie #Afrique_du_Sud #apartheid #école
Des flots à contre-courant : des montagnes du Lesotho à la métropole sud-africaine
Cet article aborde les territoires de #montagne comme fournisseurs en #eau pour la métropole du #Gauteng au travers du cas du Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) – projet de transfert hydraulique transfrontalier entre le #Lesotho et l’#Afrique_du_Sud. Cela permettra d’articuler les enjeux hydropolitiques aux questions de territorialités. Le LHWP a donné lieu à la reproduction de relations asymétriques entre et au sein des territoires métropolitains et montagneux des deux pays. Des coalitions entre acteurs ont émergé des relations que ces transferts ont instituées. A ce titre, ce projet peut être analysé en tant qu’agencement hydraulique où s’articule ou se confronte trois différentes échelles de territorialités : celle régionaliste des élites économiques et politiques sud-africaines contemporaines, de concentration des #ressources_hydrauliques d’Afrique Australe au profit de l’ « assoiffée » région de Johannesburg ; celle du gouvernement de l’Etat du Lesotho : d’une politique nationaliste de monopolisation des enjeux socio-spatiaux au profit de la seule échelle nationale ; celle des communautés #basotho : d’autonomie par rapport aux interventions de l’Etat et de revendication d’une nation basotho transnationale.
#Anthony_Bourdain goes to #South_Africa
▻http://africasacountry.com/anthony-bourdain-goes-to-south-africa
In a recent episode of his #CNN “#Parts_Unknown,” the American chef and writer Anthony Bourdain traveled to South Africa. In my mind at least, this episode was long overdue and in fact, I’ve even said so on this blog in the past. The episode focuses on #Gauteng Province (#Johannesburg and #Pretoria), signaling to a desire on the producers’ part to focus on emerging and predominantly urban black South African sensibilities and avoiding the pre-packaged, proto-European sensibilities and more (...)
#JOURNALISM #MEDIA #NELSON_MANDELA #TELEVISION #VIDEO #BLK_JKS #Soweto
South Africa’s a Continent
▻http://africasacountry.com/south-africas-a-continent
South African president #Jacob_Zuma’s visit to #Malawi in August appears to have renewed his appreciation for the quality of the roads network in #Gauteng, South Africa’s smallest yet wealthiest province. Speaking at a listening session in the lead up to the launch of the ANC’s manifesto for next year’s election, Zuma, in his capacity […]
#POLITICS #etolls #Lonmin #Marikana #South_African_exceptionalism