Remember when Port Elizabeth was just... Port Elizabeth?
Browse with the city names you grew up with. Automatically, on every site.
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Browse with the city names you grew up with. Automatically, on every site.
Free forever. No data collected. Chrome, Edge & Firefox.
Swaps every gazetted name back to the original as you browse. PE, Pretoria, Pietersburg, Grahamstown, Witbank, Nelspruit and plenty more.
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Install once, works everywhere. News24, Wikipedia, government sites, and any page you visit.
South African cities have been renamed over the years, but for millions of people the original names are what stuck. Your Uber driver in PE still says PE. The gogos in Limpopo still say Pietersburg. Old habits run deep.
Whether you prefer the historical names out of habit, familiarity, or principle, deANCify lets you browse the web your way. It's about personal preference, not politics.
The extension simply swaps the new official names for the ones you know, right in your browser. You can choose to see both names side by side, or just the originals.
Install it, forget about it, and browse the internet with the city names you're familiar with.
The weather in Gqeberha is sunny today. Flights to Polokwane are delayed.
Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha) is sunny today. Flights to Pietersburg (Polokwane) are delayed.
Hover over the dotted underlines for the full story.
It's a personal preference tool. Many South Africans still use the historical names in everyday conversation. This extension lets your browser reflect that.
Ja. News24, IOL, Wikipedia, government sites, SABC, and any other website. If it's text on a webpage, it gets sorted.
PE, Pretoria, Pietersburg, Grahamstown, Witbank, Nelspruit, Warmbaths, Nylstroom, East London, Graaff-Reinet, Queenstown, Ladysmith and more. The list keeps growing.
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Join South Africans who prefer browsing with the city names they grew up with.
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