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question on where the name “Mitchells Plain” came from and whether it should carry an apostrophe sparked a journey that led to a PhD thesis for a resident from the area. “When we speak about Mitchells Plain — beyond the headlines — we need to ask ourselves: how does your history put your reality into context? What does the history of a piece of land mean to the people who call that land home?” Nathan Adams, an awardwinning journalist, writer and communication officer at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), spoke about his doctoral research — which he will defend in August — at the Mitchells Plain Legacy Project’s Beyond the Headlines workshop on Thursday 14 May, at Hazeldene Primary School Hall. Adams was one of the guest speakers at the media workshop, which looked at how Mitchells Plain is covered in the press as part of the area’s 50th anniversary celebrations. Norman Jantjes, a member of the legacy project, said the event grew from a shared concern about how the media portrayed
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“Was Mitchells Plain then named after a person called Mitchell?”
- Nathan Adams the area. “In a room you can only get so many people. But the people who don’t come to meetings — how do we influence them? How do we inform them? So our relationship with the media is essential,” he said. He said crime dominated the headlines at the expense of everything else. “I can safely say a large part of Mitchells Plain is traumatised today,” Jantjes said, adding that behind every murder or shooting in the news, there were real people whose fuller stories deserved to be told. THE RESEARCH BEGINS Speaking ahead of the main panel discussion, Adams explained how his curiosity about Mitchells Plain started. For his master’s degree at the University of Pretoria, Adams explored public perceptions of army deployments to the Cape Flats, examined through the lens of coloured community leaders involved in the Daily Voices programme. During that
INTO THE ARCHIVES Adams started at 1976 and worked backwards — through 1970 and 1960 — searching for the earliest known reference to the name. The central question, he said, was the apostrophe. “That’s crucial not only in English grammar, but it also denotes that it belongs to somebody. It denotes possession. Was Mitchells Plain then named after a person called Mitchell?” TO PAGE 2
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research, his supervisor began asking questions about the origin of the name “Mitchells Plain”. “She put it on the back burner,” Adams said. “But when I graduated, she came back to the question. ‘If you can answer those questions, you have the basis of a PhD,’ she said.” That is how his research began. Adams said the 50-year history of Mitchells Plain was, in a sense, deceptively recent. “It’s not a long period of time in a timeline of history,” he said. “But it’s actually really difficult to trace.”
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