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What’s in a name?: William Nicol Drive in Johannesburg, named after an administrator of the Transvaal, was last month renamed Winnie Mandela Drive. Photo: Papi Morake/Gallo Images
WILLIAM NICOL DRIVE

Name changes: The long road to a national identity

The change of street and place names rouses the country’s attention unlike anything else and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon

  • Luke Feltham
6 min read
Slate politics was established at the ANC national conference in Polokwane when Jacob Zuma faced off against the party’s president Thabo Mbeki. this was the beginning of two distinct political camps.
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Zuma’s corrosive legacy is self-inflicted

He worked his way up from poverty and imprisonment to become the country’s leader but he will be remembered for a presidency that hurt the people

  • Pallo Jordan 2
12 min read