A stranger in Windhoek.(Baffour's Beefs) From: New African | Date: November 1, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 IC Publications Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

"There are probably only a handful of places in South Africa named after a white person who wasn't a land-grabbing murderer. Does anyone seriously expect black South Africans that they should reconcile themselves to the honour bestowed on these hoodlums?"--Peter Bruce, editor of the Johannesburg-based Business Day, writing on the need to replace street and place names in South Africa (and by extension in Africa as a whole).

Please come with me to Namibia. Who was he who I said: "Always something new out of Africa?" If you don't believe it, you come with me to Windhoek, the ...