Talk:Union Buildings

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English and Afrikaans section of the population?? Can somebody please reference where that was infact part of the design plan?

As far as I am aware Herbert Baker and Neo-Classical architecture have multitudes of examples of symetrical buildings, consider the design of Baker buildings at Rhodes University (Grahamstown)in light of this.

I suspect that this idea of united English and Afrikaans white population is generally political symbolism attributed after the fact, and a similar case can be made for the buildings representation of White and non-White or Black and non-Black (to use "identity tags") or more generally the fact that the two sides united into one building can show division and unity in one entity (fairly appropriate for Union buildings - the name however refers IIRC to the fact that it was designed as a seat of the Union of South Africa - there were 4 provinces).

In any event I see no real relevance in the comment, particularly as this article is really just a stub and have modified the comment to read:

this can serve to represent the union of formally divided people (see the talk page) as opposed to "which historically represented the Afrikaans and English-speaking parts of the white population"

Further comment would be appreciated Paul Hjul 15:06, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

New Name
Looks like itwill be the "Nelson Mandela Ampitheatre" from now on, or so says Pres. Zuma.Soltera (talk) 13:27, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Repetitive Information
This article needs alot of work, the same sentences are used multiple times in the article. Things should only be mentioned once. I will try to get as much done as possible --DSBennie (talk) 06:09, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

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