beechbum

Here we go..... once the name changing has started it ain't going to stop.....
Welcome to the banana republic......



"Durban International Airport (DIA) could soon be renamed Moses Mabhida International Airport if Durban's Ethekwini municipality has its way, the Mercury reported on Friday.
Renaming the airport has been placed on the agenda of the next full council meeting of the Ethekwini municipality, which is expected to be held late January.

The move has raised the eyes of opposition parties who claim no formal resolution was put forward at an executive council meeting on Wednesday.

Moses Mabhida, the former general secretary of the SA Communist Party, died in 1986 in the Mozambican capital of Maputo.

Last week he was re-buried in Pietermaritzburg at a ceremony which saw President Thabo Mbeki being booed from the stage by supporters of ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma.

Democratic Alliance councillor John Steenhuizen said, "I don't think it is much of an honour (to Mabhida) if you are going to put his name on an airport that could be demolished in three years time".

DIA is set to be de-commissioned in 2009 when the planned King Shaka International Airport is set to open in La Mercy, north of the city.

ASD

I guess that means Cape Town Intl will be next on the agenda

Twinbo

I guess Kleinzee National Airport is to follow after FACT

hiflyerz

As far as I am concerned, they can call the airports what they want, "Pinocchio Int.", "F--K Head Int.",etc., as long as the aviation and related industries progress, or............remain the same!

Shrike200

On a humerous note, I heard an aircraft calling FAJS tower 'Oliver Tambo Tower' as he got handed over on the ILS. As he turned off and got handed over to Ground, the female ATC politely reminded him 'For future reference, we are called Johannesburg Tower'. Take that you dumbass politicians! We, the USERS of the place will call it what it is....

Many thanks to JOHANNESBURG Tower, and JOHANNESBURG Area etc etc!

makeapullup

Yikes, JS approach used to have some "prestige" now we're just relegated to "etc, etc" !!!

Shrike200

Apologies! The thought was there!

Dct no speed

Any truth in the matter of Ventersdorp now Called "Baas Eugene Non International" ?

777SandMan

Are there any famous "coloureds" whose names can be used? Saartjie Baardman comes to mind

"SAARTJIE BAARDMAN APPROACH, THIS IS MANGO 123" - this just rolls off the tongue - sounds like a Leon Schuster movie!

Rude Boy

Hilarious

cavortingcheetah

It is, one fears, very unlikely that one shall ever again line up on the ILS at FAJS, but, were it ever to happen, one could surely hardly resist the temptation to call Johannesburg tower '

'Tambo Towers'
(Deep bongo voce, of course!)

Those students of Basil Fawlty might perhaps derive wry amusement from the reference. Those of architecture might gainfully prepare themselves for the shambles that habitually arise from the construction of inner city tenement blocks, inhabited by those on the lower levels of the social plane.

Dct no speed

Will the current Honourable Minister of Health also be honoured with an Airport name?

Will she settle for Garlic International or Beetroot International.

What about IAMNOLIARZUMA International or rather WASHAZUMA International ?

Witraz

And I thought Durban was going to be renamed New New Delhi

Dct no speed

You left out the "..and all"

Tswanetree - Wonderboom
Ntini International - East Londen

Can we come up with more ?