1 min readBy Laurice Taitz-Buntman
PUBLIC MEMORY: Street-level legacy — putting Joburg’s cultural champions on the map
By Laurice Taitz-BuntmanSouth Africa
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Renaming streets in Newtown was an extraordinary act of cultural cartography. The city was saying, ‘These people belong here.’ Their names would no longer live only in archives, history books or the memories of those who knew them. So who would I choose?
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About this article
- Length
- 43 words · 1 min read
- Published
- October 6, 2026
- Byline
- Laurice Taitz-Buntman
- Source
- Daily Maverick