Cape Town finally takes the time to honour Nelson Mandela

Source: The Observer

Twenty years after Nelson Mandela walked to freedom in Cape Town, the city is about to become one of the last in the world to name a street after the former South African president.

But in the wake of years of infighting, that has already cost one mayor his job, the home of the country's parliament will not give the 92-year-old anti-apartheid hero a grand city-centre thoroughfare. Nelson Mandela Boulevard will simply replace Eastern Boulevard, a fast three-lane carriageway that descends into the city just after the junction of Settlers' Way and (Cecil) Rhodes Drive.

"It has been a protracted business,'' said Owen Kinahan, who has sat on a series of failed street-naming committees since he joined the city council in 1996. "But we make no apology. Ours is a deeply scarred society and it is important that the process be conciliatory rather than divisive.''

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/26/cape-town-nelson-mandela-street

Capetown is like a separate country and only part of country that would honor him. Whites are honorable to blacks and blacks are gracious and educated there..travel up north and had to contend with whites telling me Obama is going to bomb Israel and "how could you elect a black president" and blacks drunk trying to knock down my door. Only country have ever been glad to leave. Capetown is cool tho...only part of country can recommend. There was no television during apartheid and first tv show was "Dynasty". Have a long way to go...30 yrs behind imo.