{"id":341985,"date":"2019-09-19T08:32:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=341985"},"modified":"2019-09-19T10:16:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T08:16:11","slug":"major-joburg-roads-are-being-renamed-including-the-countrys-biggest-interchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/341985\/major-joburg-roads-are-being-renamed-including-the-countrys-biggest-interchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Joburg roads are being renamed &#8211; including the country&#8217;s biggest interchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Ekurhuleni, east of greater Johannesburg, says it will rename 42 streets and eight landmarks after political icons and other eminent individuals from the region.<\/p>\n<p>In a city council meeting on Wednesday (18 September), the municipality said that some of the recommended name changes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The largest interchange in Africa &#8211; Gillooly&#8217;s interchange &#8211; will be renamed after anti-apartheid human rights lawyer advocate George Bizos;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Olifantsfontein road will be renamed Winnie Madikizela Mandela road after the anti-apartheid icon and politician;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Van Buuren off-ramp will be renamed after former South African president Thabo Mbeki;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Other street name changes include Mary Moodley (Snake Road), Lungile Mtshali (Edenvale Road), Magaret Gazo (Ego Road) and Sam Ntuli (Kliprivier Road).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Germiston government precinct will be renamed OR Tambo government precinct.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;We must build a city whose landmarks, highways, streets and intersections bear a resemblance of all the people who make up its population,&#8221; said Ekurhuleni mayor Mzwandile Masina.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The children of our city must grow up in an environment that bears names that are familiar to their home languages and of people they interface within their everyday lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I must emphasise that this is the beginning of a process of other phases to unfold in our programme to redress the apartheid legacy and promote social cohesion in our efforts in creating a National Democratic Society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The city said it will be having further discussions with both national and provincial government as the process unfolds.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/341901\/massive-upgrades-are-coming-to-south-africas-busiest-highways-and-they-could-take-up-to-8-years-to-complete\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Massive upgrades are coming to South Africa\u2019s busiest highways \u2013 and they could take up to 8 years to complete<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Ekurhuleni, east of greater Johannesburg, says it will rename 42 streets and eight landmarks after political icons and other eminent individuals from the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":341989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-341985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341985"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342027,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341985\/revisions\/342027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}