South African Language Rights Monitor 2009

Lubbe, Johan; Plessis, Theo du

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“…The issue has called forth a public outpouring, so much so that in 2008 a language-barometer publication identified street naming as constituting 30 percent of language-related issues in newspapers over the preceding year. 66 According to Orgeret, the topic elicited more reader response and debate in the Mercury (a Durban newspaper) than any other topic in the newspaper's existence. 67 In Pretoria, much of this debate was conducted in the comments section of the online editions of local newspapers and on personal Facebook sites.…”

Section: From Main Reef To Albertina Sisulu Roadmentioning

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From Main Reef to Albertina Sisulu Road

Erlank¹

2017

The Public Historian

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Public space in South Africa often feels overwhelmingly male-focused.Nevertheless, some municipalities, in the wake of post-apartheid transformation, have consciously attempted to commemorate women in the renaming that has taken place since 1994. In this article I examine some of these impulses, and their implication for the public commemoration of women in South Africa. I am interested in two aspects of this: how ideas about gender are represented in public memorialization (ideas about both masculinity and femininity); and how these ideas have changed, if at all, over the last twenty years. In order to do this I examine the phenomenon of memorialization via street names, in particular the street naming controversies that have erupted in key South African cities over roughly the last ten years.

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Section: From Main Reef To Albertina Sisulu Roadmentioning

confidence: 99%