Here we go again - selective memory hard at work.

Now there's a call to drop Natal from Kwazulu Natal because "Natal is dripping with blood" (from M&G).

Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini's suggestion that KwaZulu-Natal's name be changed should be supported because the current name is associated with suffering and humiliation, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) said on Monday.

"Natal is a colonial name. The name was coined by Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese navigator because he arrived in this part of African on December 25 1497. Natal means Christmas Day in Portuguese.

"But Natal has also caused much suffering, dispossession [and] humiliation of African people and murder of African leaders there.

"Much blood was caused to Africans at the Battle of Encome [Blood River] where thousands were killed for protecting their own country against the invading colonialists greedy of African land," said PAC president Motsoko Pheko.
It gets better.
"Names tainted with the genocide and holocaust cannot be kept by any self-respecting nation except the most docile people on Earth," Pheko said.

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Pheko suggested that the province be called simply KwaZulu or "some other appropriate name".
How did the Zulu take the kingdom? Or maybe that's the bit of history that needs to be rewritten.

One thing's for sure - if the Truth and Reconciliation process was supposed to get us over our history so that we can move on in harmony, the effect has definitely worn off in some parts.