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.