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Steve Hofmeyr Protests Against Grahamstown Being Renamed After Xhosa Warrior Makhanda
Steve suggests a new name for Grahamstown.
Steve Hofmeyr Protests Against Grahamstown Being Renamed After Xhosa Warrior Makhanda. Minister of Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa announced on Wednesday that Grahamstown would now be known as Makhanda.
Musician and activist Steve Hofmeyr expressed his sentiments that stand against the rename of the town.
Makhanda who was also known as Nxele was a Xhosa prophet and warrior.
Steve suggested that towns’ names were being changed willy nilly and that it shouldn’t be named after every “goat herder who pissed under an Acacia tree”.
“I call most towns by their old names for the simple reason that small settlements with the potential to become Western towns cannot be named after every goatherder who pissed under an Acacia tree.” tweeted Steve.
