The city of Bulawayo yesterday renamed their roads to replace some of the roads’ pre-colonial era names. Ignoring the cabinet’s road names suggestion Bulawayo renamed their roads as they dimmed fit.
Here is a full list of the new road names:
- Council resolved to stick to the numbered format for Avenues in the CBD from First to 15th Avenue.
- Councillors chose to honour the President by renaming George Avenue (from Harare Road to Old Esigodini Road) Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa Avenue
- Leopold Takawira Avenue (from Samuel Parirenyatwa Street to Umguza River Bridge along Gwanda Road) which is now King Mzilikazi Road,
- Nketa Drive is now Queen Lozikheyi Dlodlo Drive,
- Athlone Avenue is now Simon Vengai Muzenda Road
- 23rd Avenue is now Landa John Nkomo Road
- Lady Stanley Avenue is now Mama Joanna Mafuyana Avenue,
- Steeldale Road and Anthony Tylor Road is now Albert Nxele Road,
- Dunde Drive has been renamed Sikhanyiso Duke Ndlovu Drive,
- Fife Street is now Nikita Mangena Street and
- Fort Street has been renamed Lookout Masuku Street.
- Old Khami Road is now Sydney Malunga Road,
- Basch Street is Dumiso Dabengwa Road,
- Waverley Road is now Jairos Jiri Road
- Fairbridge has been renamed Erick Bloch Way.
- Hillside Road which is now Sir Garfield Todd Road,
- Van Riebeck Road is now Joseph Msika Drive,
- Connaught Avenue is now Cephas Cele Avenue,
- Collenbrander Road is now Daniel Madzimbamuto Road,
- Manchester Road is now George Nyandoro Road,
- Vera Road is now Naison Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu Road,
- Birkenhead Road has been renamed Sikanjaya Muntanga Road
- Doncaster Road is now Maria Msika Road.
- Lobengula Street has been corrected to King Lobengula Street,
- Moffat Road in Hillside which has been corrected to Robert Moffat Drive and
- Leander Road in Hillside which is now Dr Leander Star Jameson.
- Coghlan Avenue which is now Charles Patrick Coghlan Avenue
- Cecil Avenue which is now Cecil John Rhodes Avenue
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Why don’t BCC repair the potholes instead of renaming the roads , priorities are totally wrong time to wake up and do the right things
for how long shall we be changing names of institutions, roads, ministries, hospitals, towns, cities, villages, rivers, dams, jails, police stations, army barracks…. virtually everything, it creates a lot of confusion to the citizens, especially the old folks, besides history is just but history you cant replace it even if you are full of hatred. we should be worrying our selves about better things. every year we must learn new names… its sickening.
Hail King Mzilikazi!
The only oversight to be corrected is there is no mention of Mambo. Kudala kwakunganje, umhlaba sewaphenduka, kwakubus’ usu Mambo no Mzilikazi. Either we substitute Mambo with Mugabe way or with this Butcher of Matebeleland Mnangagwa fellow. It’s unity in diversity nation building in Mthwakazi. KwaBulawayo!!
What’s the point in changing street names when there are so much potholes to be fixed let alone that road going to sizinda its abandoned and we should rejoice coz of the street name change for what is the Benefit of changing names