The City of Johannesburg says the renaming of William Nicol Drive to the late Winnie Mandela Drive is part of its mission to remove the legacy of apartheid. Winnie Mandela was a struggle icon and former wife of the legendary Nelson Mandela.

As of Tuesday, the four-kilometre stretch of road in Sandton (north of Johannesburg) will go by a new name.

Nicol was the second chairperson of the Afrikaner Broederbond - a white nationalist organisation credited with the formulation of apartheid (racial segregation in South Africa).

It has been five years since an African National Congress (ANC - ruling party in SA) councillor by the name of Loyiso Masuku tabled a motion in the Johannesburg council to rename William Nicol Drive after freedom fighter, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.

“We are renaming it to show that names carry meaning, names have a heritage in our space, but those who fought for us like Mama Winnie - we are immortalising her, and we are removing those who were the architect of apartheid."

Tuesday would have been Madikizela-Mandela’s 87th birthday.

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Sadly as the road was renamed on what would have been Winnie's 87th birthday - her granddaughter, Zoleka succumbed to cancer aged 43.

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illicit:
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You stole my FTC.

roads will be name after the City boy

Tinubu road, Tinubu avenue

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