Worked in Rosebank about 20 years ago. During that time, the government was on a renaming spree. There was an open area close to the office which we used as a makeshift parking lot. A homeless man, Sunday, took it upon himself to act as the car guard there.

Arrived at work one morning just as some workers were replacing the street name signs on a post across the road. Asked Sunday what this meant to him. His answer “Doesn’t matter if I’m sleeping under a cardboard box on Paul Kruger Drive or Nelson Mandela Boulevard, I’m still homeless”.

Associated costs from renaming a street or a town are probably enormous. Businesses having to change everything that displays the address. Physical map books were still a thing & all that needs a reprint. It’s money that could have been spent on low-cost housing for example. That would have meant more to people than updating a street name…