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Union Buildings for who? In 2022 the Union Buildings should not be still called by that name and the ANC should not be debating the removal of offensive names, signage, and geographic names, says Angelo Fick. ANCPolicyConference

Image: ReutersAlmost 30 years into democracy the Union Buildings, the seat of South African government, should not be still called by that name and the African National Congress should not be going into a policy conference to debate the removal of offensive names, signage, and geographic names. That is according to Political Analyst and Director of Research at ASRI, Angelo Fick.

Speaking on the sidelines of the ANC National Policy Conference that has entered its final day at the Johannesburg Expo Centre in Nasrec, Fick says renaming of buildings and roads are things that should have been done in the 90s. “Are we really debating whether a road should still be called Hendrick Verwoerd? Surely, we have covered that lap. We have other issues we should probably be talking about,” he says.

Verwoerd was the former Prime Minister of South Africa often regarded as “the Architect of apartheid”. It was under his leadership that a lot of apartheid policies were introduced and implemented.“The fact that we still call it the Union Buildings, founded in 1910 on the active dispossession of the majority of South Africa’s black majority. Whose union was celebrated by these buildings?” asks Fick.

“Why are we still calling it the Union Buildings? Whose Union? Afrikaner and English capital?” Political Analyst Angelo Fick has questioned why the

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