What importance does identity with place have in the ongoing structuring and revitalization of personal and social identities? This article shows how an increasingly geographically mobile and globalized society like South Africa, a sense of place is still a strong indicator of identity and fundamental to people’s knowledge and understanding of themselves and others. The question of what it means to identify with and have a sense of belonging to a specific place or locality has greater significance in today is world. After the Apartheid in South Africa there was a rapid change in names of street, suburb, village, town, city, municipality, district, province and country. The reason being place names correlate with the identity of particular places, at different scales and it determined the people who live that particular area. This Journal fit into the modern political geography of places and politic of identity. After the Apartheid, the people of South Africa result to changing the name of places, street and institution to reveal their identity. The name of places is symbol of symbols of racial identity, and are contested along race and ethnicity among the South Africans. For example Guyot and Seethal artcle explained that the Pan African Congress (PAC) (including groups originating as schisms from it, e.g., the Azanian People’s Organization) and the Black Consciousness Movement, in the 1960s and 1970s respectively, to change the name, ‘South Africa’ to Azania. These ‘Africanist’ political organizations argued that the name ‘South Africa’ had colonial origins, and was symbolic of imperial and colonial (including internal colonial) domination of the indigenous and oppressed peoples of the land. For these political organizations, the name ‘Azania’ was symbolic of self-determination, national liberation, and a free and independent black republic. This show how names of a place attaches with the identity of people. Th