Tembisa will finally have her letter ‘h’ back that mysteriously went missing many years ago.
Arguably the second-biggest township in the country after Soweto, this township will now be called Thembisa and not Tembisa, as it used to be referred to over the years.
Confirming the name change, the City of Ekurhuleni’s spokesperson, Themba Gadebe, said the municipality has finally fixed the grammatical error that happened ages ago.
“The City of Ekurhuleni will change some names of its townships. This is more of a correction of spelling. Tembisa will now be pronounced and written with the letter ‘h’ and be spelled as Thembisa,” confirmed Gadebe.
He said these name changes came into effect immediately.
“As we speak, Tembisa is no longer that but Thembisa,” he said.
Other townships within the jurisdiction of this metropolitan include Tokoza, which will also inherit the letter ‘h’ and will now be spelled Thokoza, while Tsakane will now be spelled Tsakani with the letter ‘i’ instead of the letter ‘e’.
According to sourced information, the name Thembisa, which is a Nguni word that means “promise” and “hope”, was misspelled as Tembisa many years ago.
