Since 1998, – when the South African Geographical Names Council Act noticed the institution of the South African Geographical Names Council (SAGNC) – a complete of 1,505 geographical names have been modified throughout South Africa, with extra to return.
The South African Geographical Names Council (SAGNC) is chargeable for standardising geographical names within the nation, to redress and reform the geographical naming system in South Africa.
As per a latest article revealed by BusinessTech, a complete of 1,505 geographical names have been modified throughout South Africa for the reason that council’s inception in 1998.
These adjustments span quite a lot of geographical options together with cities, rivers, mountains, and extra.
In whole, 85 of the 1,505 title adjustments have been made to cities, with important exercise in provinces similar to Kwa-Zulu Natal, Japanese Cape, and Limpopo.
The Japanese Cape’s cities and cities have seen the best variety of title adjustments, other than Kwa-Zulu Natal’s new geographical names, as per the report.
Among the key title adjustments throughout the nation for the reason that ’90s have included the renaming of Port Elizabeth to Gqeberha, Uitenhage to Kariega, and Grahamstown to Makhanda.
Lately, the Japanese Cape Geographical Names Committee (ECPGNC) has proposed extra adjustments, similar to renaming Graaff-Reinet to Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe and Aberdeen to Camdeboo. These proposals are at present present process public session and evaluation.
In March, an extra record of title adjustments have been gazetted earlier than the monetary year-end. These embrace the KZN’s Ladysmith to uMnambithi and Kirkwood within the Japanese Cape to Nqweba.