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Chester Missing slams claims Eastern Cape name changes are ‘bad for tourism’ – Port Elizabeth in the News

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Chester Missing slams claims Eastern Cape name changes are ‘bad for tourism’: Controversial puppet Chester Missing took the subject head-on, cracking a joke about those who chose to travel elsewhere because they aren’t able to say the new name for Port Elizabeth.
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Cape Town airport name change ditched: The Sport, Arts and Culture Department said the public consultation process reached no consensus, leading to the renaming effort to be abandoned.
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

South Africans get their tongues round Gqeberha, new Xhosa name for Port Elizabeth: South Africa’s city of Port Elizabeth has been officially renamed Gqeberha — derived from the Xhosa language — the native tongue of late political hero Nelson Mandela.
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Editorial: Are South Africa’s new names more than a mouthful?: The new name for Port Elizabeth is now Gqeberha. Say it like this: “click-e-b-e-ghaa”. If you have a doctor’s certificate excusing you from the click, an easier pronunciation might be …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

COVID-19 rips through South African townships leaving a generation facing a ‘world without adults’: In the South African city of Port Elizabeth, it will be the children who will be forced to live with the legacy of this disease.
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Port Elizabeth woman’s R13,4 million ten year swindle – 972 counts of fraud: Estelle Burgess swindled the grand sum of R13,4 million over a period of ten years while she worked as a creditor’s clerk …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

Latest articles on Boy Lamani: There have been plenty of complaints about Port Elizabeth’s name change to Gqeberha, but citizens should be more active in speaking up during consultation processes …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

MARTIN SAMUEL: It was a hysterical catalogue of comedy capers: It’s not that the wicket wasn’t poor. It’s not that the batting wasn’t abysmal. It’s not that too many matches like this won’t kill Test cricket.
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

MARTIN SAMUEL: It was a riot. It was carnage. It was a hysterical catalogue of comedy capers… now will India play the last Test against England for laughs, too?: Hysterical stuff. Root had only taken more than two wickets in an innings once in his Test career — four in the second innings against South Africa in Port Elizabeth in January 2020 — yet here he was …
Source: “Port Elizabeth” – BingNews.

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