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Durban has seen a particularly fierce fight. A young Winston Churchill gave a famous speech here, during the Anglo-Boer war in 1899, and always regarded Durban as "a bastion of the imperial spirit"; others would say it was a center of jingoism, the last outpost of the British Empire.
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Good for them, to offend the memory of the worst war criminal of the 20ieth century (Winston).
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The council wants Edwin Swales VC highway (after a local World War II hero) renamed...while Natal Mounted Rifles highway is to be renamed...(Whites bitterly point out that Swales died in a Lancaster bomber over Germany and the NMR fought the Nazis with distinction, so even "those who fought fascism" are to be forgotten.)
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Another one criminal slides into oblivion.
Whining from the "antifascist" point of view is the last miserable rhetorical device they have to resort to.
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Jan Smuts Highway will be Cetshwayo Highway
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Jan Smuts was a pro-globalist thinker and was (albeit moderate) opponent of the Apartheid.
Some of his ideas (from
Holism and Evolution):
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Small units need develop into bigger wholes, and they in their turn again must grow into larger and ever-larger structures without cessation. Advancement lay along that path. Thus the unification of the four provinces in the Union of South Africa, the idea of the British Commonwealth of Nations, and, finally, the great whole resulting from the combination of the peoples of the earth in a great league of nations were but a logical progression consistent with his philosophical tenets.
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He was one of the founding fathers of the UN.
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Even the local Indians, who outnumber whites two to one, were ambivalent about Point Road's being be renamed after Durban's most famous Indian, Mahatma Gandhi--for Point Road is the red-light district.
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