Article: Metro committee won't let Mobutu and Nkrumah be city street names.(News)

BYLINE: Barry Bateman

A list of 75 names proposed for inclusion in the city's street names bank was rejected at a sitting of the Metro Council's Public Place and Streets Names Committee yesterday.

The committee, consisting of 15 representatives from various political parties, gave the thumbs-down to names such as those of life presidents and dictators Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana.

A report on the issue said the names proposed were aimed at Africanising the city.

The city's toponymy division researched possible names for approval - submitted by the public - before presenting them to the Public Place and Streets ...

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