No change except names

It would appear that there are moves afoot to rename a few of the city’s streets.

I believe this action is simply that of a few people who do not have the ability or capacity to make any meaningful difference to the plight of the poor, unemployed and oppressed, but feel that they must be seen to be doing something to satisfy their political bosses.

I used to get steamed up about this change for the sake of change, but in retrospect it is easier to simply let them get on with it, while better people get on with growing the economy and dealing with societal ills.

Let’s be honest, many of the name changes proposed relate to freeways and highways and do not really affect delivery addresses of businesses or the redesigning of company stationery. And even if they did, most companies and entities today rely on electronic mail for important communications with little actual post to be delivered to a street address.

In any case, most companies’ post boxes these days find themselves full of junk mail in the main.

If your customers know where you are now, then a change in the street name will hardly leave them lost. So let them get on with it. The irony in this renaming of streets and roads to honour “fallen heroes” is a sort of slap in the face as the streets are likely to become filled with refuse, overflowing sewage and adverts for abortions and penis enlargements.

If it came to a name change to the street where I reside, I would have no problem in it being named Bobani Boulevard or Lungisa Lane, or even Daniels Drive, if it meant that my refuse was collected on time, the street lights worked, the pot holes were repaired and the water pipes were leakfree.

So let these people of action make their name changes and let others make meaningful contributions to society.

Malcolm Dodds, Kunene Park

‘If your customers know where you are now, then a change in the street name will hardly leave them lost’