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Port Elizabeth Retention

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Dear Editor

It is really immature, short-sighted and bigoted for the likes of the apparently cowardly “Bullet” to make reference to “mud huts” and “bushes” when having a mud-wrestling fight over the enforced Gqeberha moniker in lieu of the apolitical, albeit British-inspired Port Elizabeth, or other soft targets used by our apparently spiteful Neo-africanists when addressing the name change issue [The Herald Letters 22 July 2024].

As a born & bred Baainar, I was not born in Gqeberha, but in Port Elizabeth, therefore vehemently reject the sheer chutzpah of people who most-likely originate from the Eastern Cape’s rural areas, farms and small towns that have the supernatural arrogance of changing names just because it has been dubiously accepted and “gazetted” by the government of South Africa.

It is also most-likely that they are the very same Africanists that insist on speaking English with their children in order to sound sophisticated, whom are contradictorally bleating about colonialism, decolonialisation of education, getting rid of colonial relics, blah blah blah.

That is simply schizophrenia, hypocrisy and bipolar rolled into one anti-colonialism confusion.

I am therefore appealing to the likes of “Bullet” to improve the quality of their argument without resorting to White Supremacy when dealing with the name changes’ comedy of errors, as I still believe that insults are the last resort of the vanquished; taking into account that the #RetainPortElizabeth campaign has not even warmed up yet, for such badly tongue-in-the-cheek racist rhetoric.

Regards

Luyanda Marlon Kama
Kwa-Dwesi, Gqeberha

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