The City of Tshwane will soon launch public consultations on the proposed renaming of Wonderboom Airport.
The proposed renaming of the City of Tshwane's municipal entity Wonderboom National Airport in honour of the Ndebele people who were forced out of the area during apartheid has been described as a fitting move to restore dignity to the original inhabitants of the land.
This was according to Joel Masilela, the Section 79 chairperson of Economic Development & Spatial Planning in Tshwane, who responded to opposition parties' criticism against the airport's name-change proposal.
Opposition parties believe the exercise, which has been approved for public consultation, would be an unnecessary waste of taxpayer money.
Masilela said: "What we are doing is to dignify the black people. There can never be a history that started in 1652 that will replace the history of the Nguni tribe that started even before the 1500s."
