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Written by defenceWeb - Grounded Albatross gate guard at FAPE. Photo courtesy Avcom.
The SA Air Force (SAAF) Museum as the guardian of South Africa’s military aviation history is aware of the sorry state of both gate guards at Port Elizabeth Airport, now renamed Dawid Stuurman International.
The Albatross maritime reconnaissance aircraft is currently not on its plinth following a clean-up and new paint job three years ago. Similarly, the Impala which also kept watch at the entrance to the Eastern Cape airport is also “grounded”.
Major Ntokozo Ntshangase, acting OC of the SAAF Museum, told defenceWeb “the status of the gate guards at Port Elizabeth Airport has been noted”.
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A recent radio programme demonstrated how people can recognise and learn from the past, yet remain blind to the much more pressing present.
Under discussion was the new name for the Port Elizabeth Airport and its significance for South Africa in 2021. An historian from the University of Cape Town explained who the renamed Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport was named after: he was a Khoi leader who joined forces with the Xhosa people in opposing colonial expansion on the 18
th-century eastern border of the Cape. We were further informed that the apartheid government’s policy of divide and rule had been most effective in shattering the unity between the Khoi (and, more broadly and subsequently, the coloured people) and the amaXhosa. The interviewer then asked: who benefits now from the division between black and coloured South Africans?
A weekend-long celebration to launch the new name of Port Elizabeth - Gqeberha - starts at noon.
The Khoi and San activist behind the new name changes in the Nelson Mandela Bay, Christian Martin, has pulled out all the stops for the event.
Martin s event coincides with a bid by the Nelson Mandela Bay mayor to have the name and other name changes reversed.
Christian Martin, one of three men who successfully petitioned for the renaming of Port Elizabeth, the town s airport, and Uitenhage, is inviting people of what is now known as Gqeberha to a weekend-long celebratory launch.
The carnival-style event launch will start at noon on Friday in front of the city hall where a 5m X 1.5m banner displaying the name Gqeberha - Port Elizabeth s new name - will fly up in the sky.