The City of Cape Town together with the Name Your Hood organisation will host a basketball tournament at the Gugulethu Sports Complex this Sunday, 13 January 2013 to help to raise awareness of the Name Your Hood (NYH) campaign.
The NYH Vincent Ntunja Basketball tournament, promises to be a fun-filled day offering prizes galore. It will be hosted by Vincent Ntunja who grew up in Gugulethu. Vincent, a successful national basketball player, model, television presenter, and philanthropist, is involved in Hoops for Hope, an international non-governmental organisation which uses basketball to reach out to underprivileged children. He is a panel member for the Name Your Hood and an advocate of the campaign.
The City of Cape Town launched “Name Your Hood/Street Gugulethu” late last year and the campaign aims to encourage the public to help change or name eight streets in the suburb.
The process is being driven by the City’s Public Participation Unit and managed by the NYH team, which previously launched a similar exercise for parts of the city bowl.
Members of the public will be able to use a number of options to take part, including attendance at public meetings, online voting, interaction with door-to-door field workers or by visiting central voting areas that will be located at shopping malls or other venues.
“The proposed new street names flowing from this public participation process will be forwarded to the City, for its consideration as part of a formal renaming process, similar to what was recently concluded with other streets,” said Councillor Brett Herron at the launch of the campaign. It is expected that the proposed new names for the eight neighbourhoods will have less of a formal status and will hopefully find its way into the public discourse.
The first hood in Gugulethu was named Moerat and an additional seven are expected to be named by 31 March 2013.
Members of the public are invited to attend the event on Sunday and vote for their favourite Hood 2 and 3 names online or via SMS to 32015. Interested parties can also submit name suggestions for the streets throughout Gugulethu.
For more information please visit http://gugulethu-capetown.co.za/.
