http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/objection-to-proposed-name-change-of-the-1820-settlers-monument.html Online petition signatures en-us Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:28 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24247968?utm_medium=rss Thu, 14 Apr 2022 02:05:49 UTC 24247968 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24124191?utm_medium=rss This is a heinous act of histoical erasure and should not be contemplated. The 1820 settlers and what they stood for and achieved should be celebrated, not denied.

]]> Wed, 2 Jun 2021 08:07:49 UTC 24124191 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23738457?utm_medium=rss It is part of OUR HERITAGE and no one has the right to take that away from us. It goes against the Constitution of this country.
The 1820 Settlers' monument name should stay as it is.

]]> Sun, 12 Jul 2020 01:40:14 UTC 23738457 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23628629?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 May 2020 09:23:13 UTC 23628629 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23369559?utm_medium=rss Hastings

]]> Thu, 14 Nov 2019 01:10:53 UTC 23369559 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23365309?utm_medium=rss Mon, 11 Nov 2019 02:52:16 UTC 23365309 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23316727?utm_medium=rss I am descended from Thomas and Ann Glass, two of the 1820 British Settlers, who emigrated to South Africa. The 1820 Settlers had an enormous and positive impact on the History of South Africa and it is fitting that there should be a monument to them. The name of the existing monument should be retained.

]]> Wed, 9 Oct 2019 03:47:52 UTC 23316727 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23233350?utm_medium=rss As a settler descendent, I object to the proposed name change. The 1820 Settlers are an integral part of the history of our country and the monument built to honour their memory should not be renamed.

]]> Sat, 7 Sep 2019 03:55:49 UTC 23233350 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23219017?utm_medium=rss Thu, 22 Aug 2019 06:37:25 UTC 23219017 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23202660?utm_medium=rss Thu, 8 Aug 2019 08:31:42 UTC 23202660 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23173344?utm_medium=rss Sat, 13 Jul 2019 10:52:20 UTC 23173344 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23172621?utm_medium=rss I strongly object to any attempt to change the name of the 1820 Settlers Monument as it exists to honour and remember the role played by the Settlers in the development of the Eastern Cape and South Africa.

]]> Sat, 13 Jul 2019 04:12:53 UTC 23172621 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23165044?utm_medium=rss You cannot erase History by changing names. The next target may be Blood River! The Settlers and Voortrekkers made a massive contribution to the development of the RSA. Give some recognition!

]]> Wed, 10 Jul 2019 03:05:51 UTC 23165044 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23156932?utm_medium=rss The monument to the 1820 Settlers is correctly named and should remain named as it is, in honor of these pioneers who gave up their land of birth to create a new life in Africa.

]]> Fri, 5 Jul 2019 02:50:45 UTC 23156932 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23144624?utm_medium=rss I support this petition

]]> Thu, 27 Jun 2019 06:53:29 UTC 23144624 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23144567?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jun 2019 05:50:51 UTC 23144567 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23144195?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Jun 2019 11:54:09 UTC 23144195 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23143401?utm_medium=rss Honor the past don't delete it

]]> Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:30:36 UTC 23143401 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23140500?utm_medium=rss Mon, 24 Jun 2019 07:54:23 UTC 23140500 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23140346?utm_medium=rss I support your petition to NOT change the name of the 1820 Settlers' Monument.

]]> Mon, 24 Jun 2019 05:34:32 UTC 23140346 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23140000?utm_medium=rss Mon, 24 Jun 2019 01:25:59 UTC 23140000 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23139947?utm_medium=rss My family were part of the influx of early settlers to Grahamstown, Their bones are now part of the soil of the area and their amazing perseverance helped to build the country. They should be proudly remembered.

]]> Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:45:54 UTC 23139947 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23138037?utm_medium=rss Sun, 23 Jun 2019 12:45:16 UTC 23138037 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23137843?utm_medium=rss Noooooo! As a proud descendant of the 1820 settlers the name and the monument must stay as is - it celebrates the incredible people who came to this country with little and dig out lives for themselves and their families with their blood sweat and tears!

]]> Sun, 23 Jun 2019 10:36:57 UTC 23137843 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23136995?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Jun 2019 11:11:29 UTC 23136995 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23135658?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Jun 2019 06:59:03 UTC 23135658 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23135654?utm_medium=rss This is ridiculous. It is after all there to were people who settled here in 1820. It is not suggesting that there were no other people here. Why is a monument not erected to the Xhosa people who died in the wars and who will killed by the Dutch/British armed forces. These people were used as the filling in the sandwich between the warring Xhosa and the European farmers.

]]> Sat, 22 Jun 2019 06:52:08 UTC 23135654 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23133316?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Jun 2019 09:47:51 UTC 23133316 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23133218?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Jun 2019 08:57:52 UTC 23133218 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23130349?utm_medium=rss I am a descendant of William Joseph Moore who came to SA as part of Wait's party. The monument is in honour of the 1820 Settlers AND NOTHING ELSE! DO NOT CHANGE THE NAME!!!!!

]]> Thu, 20 Jun 2019 03:20:29 UTC 23130349 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23129960?utm_medium=rss The 1820 Settlers Monument has to retain its current name and should not be renamed as only the current name can honour the people it commemorates.
Any change of name would contravene the SA constitution which states that SA belongs to all the people that live in it. Therefor eradicating or renaming everything that is not to the liking of the majority race group to the detriment of minority race groups, is contrary to the constitution.

]]> Thu, 20 Jun 2019 01:19:56 UTC 23129960 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23128748?utm_medium=rss I applaud Justin Bradfield for his stance on the ludicrous re-naming of the 1820 Settlers Monument. The whole fabric of a modern South Africa was developed by the generations that followed from the original Dutch and English Settlers.

]]> Thu, 20 Jun 2019 06:02:31 UTC 23128748 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23126160?utm_medium=rss Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:00:54 UTC 23126160 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23125982?utm_medium=rss Wed, 19 Jun 2019 10:51:46 UTC 23125982 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23125699?utm_medium=rss Descendant of the Hon. William Frederick Cock.

]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2019 08:24:08 UTC 23125699 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23124974?utm_medium=rss Strong objection from a Descendant of the 1820 settlers now living in Australia.
-The notion is nothing less than DESECTRATION of a MEMORIAL. You should be ashamed .

]]> Tue, 18 Jun 2019 10:44:53 UTC 23124974 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23124863?utm_medium=rss Tue, 18 Jun 2019 08:56:58 UTC 23124863 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23124811?utm_medium=rss The past cannot be changed.

]]> Tue, 18 Jun 2019 08:19:10 UTC 23124811 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23124183?utm_medium=rss Born in Grahamstown, the 4x gt grandson of an 1820 Settler, John Parkin I am signing this to protest at attempts to change history.

]]> Tue, 18 Jun 2019 12:28:13 UTC 23124183 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23123196?utm_medium=rss Mon, 17 Jun 2019 05:24:53 UTC 23123196 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23122003?utm_medium=rss Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:46:32 UTC 23122003 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23121818?utm_medium=rss Changing the name of the monument commemorating the 1820 settlers will not erase their memory nor their contribution to nation-building, but I feel it would be very unjust decision. Where other groups deserve recognition for the role they played, let them be honoured in a similar fashion in an appropriate location, but lets not simply "expunge" part of our heritage. It would seem to me that renaming this monument is contrary to the spirit of inclusiveness and, in fact, promotes alienation in our Country.

]]> Sun, 16 Jun 2019 05:17:50 UTC 23121818 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23120728?utm_medium=rss Sun, 16 Jun 2019 06:17:18 UTC 23120728 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23120003?utm_medium=rss By changing the name is denying our Heratage and or Ancestors LEGACY IN THIS COUNTRY

]]> Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:35:59 UTC 23120003 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23118355?utm_medium=rss Sat, 15 Jun 2019 01:16:15 UTC 23118355 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23114125?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Jun 2019 10:02:09 UTC 23114125 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23114011?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Jun 2019 08:30:41 UTC 23114011 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23113721?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Jun 2019 05:28:18 UTC 23113721 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23112311?utm_medium=rss To reiterate, This act, should it proceed, is a gross injustice and at odds with the spirit of inclusivity enshrined in the South African constitution.

]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2019 09:25:30 UTC 23112311 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23112010?utm_medium=rss Please do not gut a meaningful name in the interests of 'inclusivity'.

]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2019 03:46:34 UTC 23112010 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23110912?utm_medium=rss Several of my ancestors were on the Albany. It would be very sad if the monument was changed in any way.

]]> Thu, 13 Jun 2019 02:17:09 UTC 23110912 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23110682?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:46:20 UTC 23110682 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23110535?utm_medium=rss I strongly object to the monument's name being changed - the 1820 settlers were a reality not a political organisation

]]> Thu, 13 Jun 2019 09:33:49 UTC 23110535 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23109764?utm_medium=rss Sending in a written objection

]]> Wed, 12 Jun 2019 06:57:50 UTC 23109764 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23109432?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Jun 2019 03:57:51 UTC 23109432 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23109241?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Jun 2019 01:46:35 UTC 23109241 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23109072?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Jun 2019 12:31:33 UTC 23109072 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23108813?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Jun 2019 09:47:27 UTC 23108813 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23108504?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Jun 2019 06:15:20 UTC 23108504 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23107079?utm_medium=rss Tue, 11 Jun 2019 06:02:29 UTC 23107079 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23106496?utm_medium=rss Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:44:33 UTC 23106496 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23106292?utm_medium=rss I raised my children in the Eastern Cape and can't imagine why anyone would want to rename a memorial to the early settlers. What on earth could they possibly change it to? It's taking things just a step too far

]]> Tue, 11 Jun 2019 05:38:37 UTC 23106292 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23106282?utm_medium=rss Tue, 11 Jun 2019 05:26:12 UTC 23106282 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23106261?utm_medium=rss Oh! I beseech your Eminency, by your grace to govern in proper accordance with the past sanctitities of those who justly and with great fortitude, innocent of any malice or wrong doing in accepting a hard earned place in the 4000 strong, by being selected on the basis of their standing in their society, and to come and farm marginal and difficult and dangerous areas, it is my humble request laid before you.

]]> Tue, 11 Jun 2019 04:52:28 UTC 23106261 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23106257?utm_medium=rss Tue, 11 Jun 2019 04:50:59 UTC 23106257 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23105897?utm_medium=rss You cant change history by changing names. We are proud to be descendants of the 1820 Settlers and by changing the name you are trying to erase this history.

]]> Mon, 10 Jun 2019 10:26:05 UTC 23105897 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23105806?utm_medium=rss Retain history

]]> Mon, 10 Jun 2019 09:06:58 UTC 23105806 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23105700?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Jun 2019 07:45:55 UTC 23105700 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23105496?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Jun 2019 03:47:20 UTC 23105496 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23105475?utm_medium=rss Name-changes haven't helped a single soul in SA besides the people who received the Tenders. LEAVE this Monument alone!!!!

]]> Mon, 10 Jun 2019 03:23:25 UTC 23105475 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23105457?utm_medium=rss Injustice. Leave well enough alone.

]]> Mon, 10 Jun 2019 03:06:48 UTC 23105457 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23105452?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Jun 2019 03:02:41 UTC 23105452 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23105413?utm_medium=rss My great great grandfather came with the British Settlers

]]> Mon, 10 Jun 2019 02:06:35 UTC 23105413 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23105355?utm_medium=rss The memorial is to the early Settlers and a tribute to the way they opened up the country for the rest of us...we should not bow down to any pressure to change the name but leave it as is!

]]> Mon, 10 Jun 2019 12:46:43 UTC 23105355 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23105306?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:23:22 UTC 23105306 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23105298?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:17:34 UTC 23105298 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23105290?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:09:21 UTC 23105290 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23105289?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:08:59 UTC 23105289 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23105286?utm_medium=rss A monument commemorating an event or person annot be changed according to whim to commorate another person or event. The name does not change the function.

]]> Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:01:39 UTC 23105286 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23105210?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Jun 2019 09:17:29 UTC 23105210 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23105136?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Jun 2019 06:32:11 UTC 23105136 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23105135?utm_medium=rss Firstly, Grahamstown, developed and named by 1820 Settlers has lost its name. Now the remaining decendants are suffering the indignity of having Settler's Monument renamed. It seems that the history by the dominant race is in the process of being rewritten. It appears that the reverse Apartheid has continued in full force, de facto and under the rule of law of the ruing parties which is run by the dominant race. I suppose the idea is that the English and the Dutch came uninvited and now they are being expelled. The current residents are to pay for the sins of their fathers. Reminds me of the Confederate flag of the USA Civil War. The flag is now synonymous with the ideas of slavery in the USA. It appears to me that the monument, which is something for the descendants of the 1820 to grasp onto and to remember is an irritation to the majority who do not want even a remnant of the actual History of Grahamstown to remain are making it clear. No symbol should show its origin to the English, Dutch or other settlers. A tremendous abundance was brought into the Southeast Cape by Settlers and perhaps both sides of the color spectrum should be allowed to remember some vestiges of the actual history of the town. The mob mentality is the rush of a great wave to wash away the memories of all but black history in Grahamstown. And, the "indigenous" population would be just as happy is any of the while history of South Africa be wiped from history, even the monument of the Settlers, erected by them for just that specific purpose. Who is the bigger, here? What would Nelson Mandella do? I don't know. Perhaps the pendulum which has long ago swung well past the return point, completing the obliteration process, should stop this one time. All the changes contain some vestiges of hatred and racism. Only it has been reversed. Even generations later, there appears to be no tolerance and no forgiveness among the original South Africans. But don't worry. South Africa will hardly be banned from the Olympic Games for the unfortunate conduct of the majority.

]]> Mon, 10 Jun 2019 06:31:25 UTC 23105135 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23105035?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Jun 2019 04:05:19 UTC 23105035 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23105026?utm_medium=rss Descendant of 19820 settler

]]> Mon, 10 Jun 2019 03:58:55 UTC 23105026 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23104539?utm_medium=rss I object to the proposed name change

]]> Sun, 9 Jun 2019 09:29:18 UTC 23104539 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23104462?utm_medium=rss Sun, 9 Jun 2019 08:05:53 UTC 23104462 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23104329?utm_medium=rss Sun, 9 Jun 2019 06:17:57 UTC 23104329 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23104328?utm_medium=rss I am a proud Descendant from the 1820 Settlers and not ashamed to admit it.

]]> Sun, 9 Jun 2019 06:17:10 UTC 23104328 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23104258?utm_medium=rss Sun, 9 Jun 2019 04:50:34 UTC 23104258 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23104191?utm_medium=rss Sun, 9 Jun 2019 03:14:11 UTC 23104191 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23104121?utm_medium=rss Sun, 9 Jun 2019 02:10:23 UTC 23104121 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23104116?utm_medium=rss One cannot change History by changing names.

]]> Sun, 9 Jun 2019 02:04:54 UTC 23104116 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23104094?utm_medium=rss Do not take away our heritage

]]> Sun, 9 Jun 2019 01:36:34 UTC 23104094 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23103842?utm_medium=rss Sun, 9 Jun 2019 06:35:24 UTC 23103842 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23103527?utm_medium=rss Sat, 8 Jun 2019 11:29:24 UTC 23103527 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23103517?utm_medium=rss Sat, 8 Jun 2019 11:13:59 UTC 23103517 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23103425?utm_medium=rss Sat, 8 Jun 2019 09:19:38 UTC 23103425 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23103309?utm_medium=rss Sat, 8 Jun 2019 06:28:18 UTC 23103309 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23103220?utm_medium=rss Sat, 8 Jun 2019 04:36:45 UTC 23103220 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23103170?utm_medium=rss Sat, 8 Jun 2019 03:33:45 UTC 23103170