‘Racial harmony’ in new park names
By
ROBIN CHARTERIS,
London correspondent What’s in a name? Racial harmony, according to the Left-wing Labour-controlled Lambeth Borough Council in London. The council has decided to rename many of its local facilities in honour of eminent black people, in spite of a shocked reaction from conservative members of the council.
Among the new names are:
Zephanie Mothopeng Park — better known since 1800 as Brockwell Park, it will now bear the name of an anti-apartheid leader serving 30 years in a Soweto jail.
Mangaliso Sobukwe Pool — formerly Streatham Baths to the locals, who may not have heard of the late found of the Pan African Congress. Sharpurji Saklatvalai — Myatts a park in Brixton,; will now to be named after this 1920 -
Communist. The Lambeth council will also spend £5OOO ($13,000) to bring Mr Mothopeng’s wife from Soweto for the renaming ceremony at Brockwell Park, together with the president of the Pan African Congress, Mr Johnson Mlambo, of Tanzania.
Other name changes to be instituted by the council will honour Jesse Owens, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Martin Luther King. Why change the local names? “To improve racial harmony," says the chairman of the council’s amenities services committee, Mrs Sharon Atkins.
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