South Africa's Durban municipality has denied that a road called Mugabe Street is named after Zimbabwe's leader Robert Mugabe, who won disputed polls in June 2008.
Siyabonga Mngadi, chair of the street renaming task team, told the BBC the street was named after a "local hero".
He was responding to complaints from residents quoted in the media, calling for the road to be renamed.
"Why name the street after a leader who does not respect democracy?" one told South Africa's Sowetan newspaper.
Okay immediate thoughts
If it's named after a local hero, can we at least know who that local hero is or was? And if not, can the Durban council at least 'fess up and get rid of the damned thang. In fact, can't we find the biggest, smelliest, most vile rubbish dump or landfill in South Africa and name that in Robert Mugabe's honour?
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