The words and labels we use matter. Which is why we need to interrogate the assumptions underlying our definitions — and the political implications inherent in these, writes ChrisRoper.
It was former president Thabo Mbeki, I think, who declaimed “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” The adage is popularly held to make the claim that the name of something doesn’t affect what it really is.
I was reminded of this while ordering tea for my dear old mother — 85 and counting — at a restaurant in the part of Cape Town that mean people refer to as “beyond the lentil curtain”. It’s a vegetarian restaurant called Blended Health Café, and it’s situated inside what, over recent decades, we’ve been conditioned to term a “lifestyle centre”. ..If you have already registered or subscribed, please sign in to continue.
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