READER LETTER | Process of changing Grahamstown’s name flawed

Name-changing is still an emotive and highly-contested issue in SA.   Many see it as essential to transformation. Others see it as divisive and retributive, rather than reconciliatory. The renaming of Grahamstown, now officially known as Makhanda, brings these issues to the fore. Grahamstown’s history dates from 1812 when the site, at the headwaters of the Blaaukrantz River, was chosen  to be the British military headquarters on the Eastern Frontier.