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President Jacob Zuma has lauded South Africans for showing maturity in accepting post-apartheid changes to the country's heritage sites.
In a Heritage Month debate in the National Assembly, he said name changes for streets, cities and airports had been accepted with "minimal resistance".
Zuma said it was clear that those affected understood the necessity of correcting the wrongs of the past and to build a new inclusive society.
He said this maturity is one of the key attributes of the South African people.
"The 19 years of freedom and democracy have thus included building of a new cultural landscape and heritage landscape through the development of new national symbols , monuments , museums and festivals that define the new free non racial democratic South Africa" Zuma said.
