Mthethwa’s searching for a new name for SA

FOR goodness sake – does Nathi Mthethwa have nothing useful to do? He has vowed to find a new name for South Africa.

Come on Nathi, do a real job for a change and earn your outrageous salary. B CALDERWOOD Kloof

SA has bigger fish to fry, Mthethwa

AT A TIME WHEN the country finds itself in junk status and only a unified effort from all can contribute to trying to get out of this recession, the best contribution from our esteemed Arts and Culture Minister, Nathi Mthethwa is the proposal to rename the country.

What right has this minister got to propose such, taking into account that the name that is directly aligned to our esteemed national anthem of the rainbow nation, and which anthem refers to South Africa.

The comment has the mindset of Mugabe, and if we continue on our current path, our money will also resemble the Monopoly money that the Zimbabwean dollar did. As a minister, Mthethwa should be focusing on creating social cohesion as opposed to dividing a country that is beset with tensions.

There are far more pressing mat- ters that need attention. Changing a name will not address poverty, homelessness, junk status and a host of social ills that need radical transformation. It’s this type of irresponsible rhetoric that will continue the junk-status spiral and disinvestment. G JANSEN Warner Beach

‘Mzanzi’ or ‘Mzansi’ carries no baggage

IF NATHI Mthethwa wants to change the names then let him go ahead. Please correct the spelling of Empangeni and Mtwalume.

As to changing the name of South Africa, I vote for Mzanzi or Mzansi. This name is already in the vernacular and carries no baggage. Rebranding a country is not an easy exercise. JOHN DRAKE Winklespruit

A strong voice for the dispossessed

DESPITE our differences, we would like to applaud Floyd Shivambu of the EFF for standing up for more than 40 million African people who have been dispossessed of their land, our mothers and sisters raped, our people butchered.

It was only Shivambu out of more than 300 parliamentarians who stood up for us, and we are thankful for that. We are not scared of war because our people have suffered for more than 350 years.

Our people continue to be killed on the farms. Just recently in the North West we saw two Boers killTHE ing a young innocent Matlhomola; there is an ongoing civil war.

We have carried on from where King Bambatha left, we have promised ourselves that we will take the land back no matter what it takes.

Our people in 1960 and 1976 were not fighting for civil rights but for their dignity, to re-own or repossess the land.

We know that FF+ are running a parallel government with their own military branch, we are aware that they are training their children. Our message to them is that we have prepared ourselves.

If this right-wing FF+ believes that they can do what they did in Sharpeville as well as Soweto, then they have something coming their way. Our ancestors were so kind to offer them hospitality and now they are bossing around and intimidating us; we are more than prepared to fight whoever stole our land. KENNETH MOKGATLHE PAC spokesperson

Creating a storm between faiths

I AM just wondering why Dr Thillay Naidoo keeps on attacking Muslims and Christians.

We constantly see his letters in the press, and listen to him on SAFM criticising Muslims and Christians. Some of my Hindu friends feel embarrassed and always apologise to me whenever he attacks Muslims. Maybe a senior Hindu leader should speak to him and advise him to stop because he is creating unnecessary friction between people of different faiths. KHATIJA SHAIKJEE

Pietermaritzburg