Ja… If you live in KZN you will, no doubt, be sick of the hunna-hunna with regards to road renaming. Luckily the outraged letters to the newspaper appear to be petering out, God knows there were enough of them and they all amounted to nothing except to draw awareness to the vast lake of malcontent that exists in Kwa-Zulu Natal – but we knew about that anyway.
So, many innocuously named roads have been renamed after prominent (and not so prominent) veterans of the Struggle. Everyone will have an opinion on this and I am not discussing it here. My story is this:
Today I had to visit premises in Loop street which is in the CBD of Msunduzi (aka Pietermaritzburg). I was not exactly sure on how to get there, I don’t own a GPS and so I called up the trusty ‘Yellow Pages route-calculator on my browser and got a map. Fabulous! Except that the Yellow pages have not yet gotten around to noting the name changes. I drive down Nkosi Albert Luthuli road and travel the 2.6 kms required to get to Loop Street and find, to my dismay, that I have been misled for I am looking at Jabu Ndlovu Street.. I am eventually able to double back – thinking I must have miscalculated – Loop street hasn’t changed it’s name – or has it?
It has, it is now Jabu Ndlovu street. Fortunately I have a working knowledge of what is where in the CBD but what if you didn’t – what if you were from another part of the country driving around looking for Loop street – it doesn’t appear to exist. The issue is that if you lived in the town during the renaming stage you would still know where everything used to be and hopefully what it is currently known as but if you didn’t, expect to get lost – a lot.
Check out the link below for a little bit of information on Jabu Ndlovu:
www.lrs.org.za/pdfs/wgu/wgu_gall/c7.pdf
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