Changing the names of cities, airports, and roads can be controversial. However, as Nick Dall and Matthew Blackman discovered, when names "don’t fit with our Constitution or our social values", they can't be changed soon enough. This article explores the history of the man after whom William Nicol Drive was named, and as it turns out, he was a hardline segregationist and racist.
18 March 2021
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2021-03-18-why-is-a-major-joburg-road-still-named-after-one-of-the-worst-racists-in-our-history/
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