Paarliete is erg onthuts oor die onlangse uitspraak van die minister van sport, kuns en kultuur dat die naam van die Afrikaanse Taalmuseum en -monument verander moet word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minister Nathi Mthethwa het onlangs di\u00e9 uitlating gemaak by die jaarlikse ondertekeningseremonie van die aandeelhouerkompak-ooreenkoms tussen die departement en alle hoofde en voorsitters van die openbare entiteite wat onder sy portefeulje val.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mthethwa se uitlating het wyd reaksie gelok met \u2019n groot aantal inwoners wat sterk gekant is teen die moontlike naamsverandering en ander wat meen dat die openbaredeelname-proses eers sy gang moet gaan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In \u2019n verklaring, wat deur die Afrikaanse Taalmuseum en -monument (ATM) uitgereik is, het Michael Jonas, die direkteur van die ATM, ges\u00ea di\u00e9 instelling het in reaksie op wat die minister ges\u00ea het besluit om \u2019n konsultasieproses van stapel te stuur om die \u201chaalbaarheid van \u2019n moontlike naamsverandering te ondersoek\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jonas het ook ges\u00ea hul eerste stap is om \u2019n strategiese beplanningsessie met die ATM-raadslede op 26 en 27 Mei te hou, gevolg deur \u2019n openbare vergadering op Saterdag 28 Mei waar die publiek se insette oor die moontlike naamsverandering gevra sal word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTot dan verkies die ATM se raad en bestuur om nie verdere openbare kommentaar te lewer nie om sodoende nie die proses vooruit te loop nie,\u201d het Jonas ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIntussen bly ons daarop gefokus om maatskaplike samehorigheid, veeltaligheid, Afrikaans en ander inheemse tale \u2013 asook die rol wat hulle in die groter dekoloniseringsproses speel \u2013 te bevorder. Ons moedig dus mense aan wat dieselfde voel om die instelling te ondersteun deur ons wye verskeidenheid geleenthede by te woon en om jaarpermitte aan te skaf. Die Taalmonument het ook onder meer oudiogidse in Afrikaans, Xhosa, Engels en Frans beskikbaar waardeur die simboliek van hierdie ikoniese beeldhouwerk verduidelik word,\u201d het Jonas ges\u00ea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die burgemeester van die Drakenstein-munisipaliteit, Conrad Poole, het sy stem teen die moontlike naamsverandering laat hoor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk wil vandag (Vrydag 20 Mei) vir die agbare minister s\u00ea: Hande af van die Afrikaanse Taalmonument! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie monument is \u2019n ikoniese bewys om erkenning te gee aan al die tale wat bygedra het tot die totstandkoming van Afrikaans. Dit is \u2019n onlosmaaklike deel van die Paarl en Drakenstein se erfenis en kultuur,\u201d het Poole ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie direksie en bestuur van die Afrikaanse Taalmonument is op rekord dat hulle gefokus bly op die bevordering van sosiale kohesie, veeltaligheid, Afrikaans en ander inheemse tale \u2013 asook die rol wat hulle speel in die groter dekoloniseringsproses. Om \u2019n organisasie met sulke edele doelwitte te wil straf, is ongevraagd en verregaande,\u201d het hy ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Poole het ook genoem dat die monument sinoniem is met die Paarl en die Drakenstein-streek en dat dit \u2019n groot toeriste-aantreklikheid is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOm die naam nou te verander is belaglik en maak glad nie sin nie. Ek wil herhaal dat ons in Drakenstein al ons land se amptelike tale respekteer en geeneen kry voorkeurbehande\u00adling nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs uitvoerende burgemeester glo ek ek praat namens al die mense van hierdie gebied as ek s\u00ea die minister moet dadelik sy planne stop. President Cyril Ramaphosa het gesonde verstand getoon toe hy vandeesweek opdrag gegee het dat die minister se besluit om \u2019n reusagtige \u2018monumentale vlag\u2019 op te rig, gekanselleer word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit sou belastingbetalers R22 miljoen kos. Ek wil minister Mthethwa versoek om dieselfde met sy planne vir die Afrikaanse Taalmonument te doen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Poole het ges\u00ea indien die minister nie sy planne stop nie, sal hulle alles in hul vermo\u00eb doen om hom teen te staan \u201caangesien ons nie kan toelaat dat hierdie onnodige inmenging voortgaan nie,\u201d het Poole afgesluit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die ANC-raadslid Moutie Richards het by navraag ges\u00ea die ANC in Drakenstein is deeglik bewus van die ongelukkigheid onder die publiek oor die moontlikheid van Mthethwa se beplande naamsverandering van die Afrikaanse Taalmonument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie departement het onlangs ook bekend gemaak dat daar kommer is oor die stadige pas van transformasie met die naamsveranderingsproses in die algemeen en meer spesifiek met museums in die land. Soos deur die Grondwet bepaal word, sal daar wel \u2019n deursigtige en openlike openbaredeelnameproses gevolg word om die publiek se insette te kry. Eers daarna sal \u2019n besluit geneem kan word of die naam wel gaan verander of nie,\u201d het Richards ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die bekende skrywer en uitgewer Kerneels Breytenbach het ook sy mening oor die kwessie gelug: \u201cDie Afrikaanse Taalmonument het baie gemengde gevoelens uitgelok toe dit in die vroe\u00eb jare sewentig opgerig en op 10 Oktober 1975 ingewy is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAfrikaanse skrywers is baie selektief na die geleentheid uitgenooi en hulle het toe en masse <\/em>besluit om die geleentheid te boikot. So het dit toe gekom dat die skrywers \u2019n soort salon de refus\u00e9 <\/em>in die Klub Here XVII in Langstraat, Kaapstad, gehou het met Danie van Niekerk van Tafelberg-uitgewers as gasheer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAl die bekendes van die dag was daar en nie by die monument nie. \u2019n Gedig van Adam Small is by die monument se inwyding voorgelees, maar Small self was saam met die skrywers by die Klub Here XVII,\u201d het Breytenbach op sy beurt ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andr\u00e9 Fourie, \u2019n raadslid van die VF Plus, het ges\u00ea juis omdat die ontstaan van Afrikaans soveel ander invloede gehad het, dit die monument inklusief maak. \u201cDie torings van die ATM verteenwoordig elk van hierdie insette in die ontwikkeling van Afrikaans en is juis inklusief.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fourie het ook ges\u00ea die VF Plus in Drakenstein wil weet \u201cwaarom sou die Nati Mthethwa\u2019s, die Blade Nzimande\u2019s en Lesufi\u2019s van vandag juis Afrikaans en die reeds inklusiewe ATM 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