By examining the 1935 attempt by the Enkeldoorn Town Management Board in Southern Rhodesian (modern-day Zimbabwe) to change the town's name to Charter, this article examines the contentious politics of place renaming and its intersection with struggles over public memory, identity, and belonging. It examines how the Afrikaner population, which was a component of Southern Rhodesia's white society, campaigned against the intended renaming of Enkeldoorn Town and fought to safeguard their identity by retaining the Afrikaans name Enkeldoorn. This article adds to Southern Africa's increasing literature on white identities, whiteness, and white societies by illuminating divisions within the Southern Rhodesian settler community based on ethnic differences between English and Afrikaans-speaking whites. Additionally, it examines the significance of place names as embodiments of a people's collective memory and legacy building, contributing to current discussions about toponymic commemorative practises by connecting them to broader concepts such as the social construction of places and collective memory. Place renaming is usually controversial since place names encapsulate a people's cultural experience and collective heritage. Therefore, place renaming becomes a point of contention between colonised peoples, affected social groups, and the state or socio-politically-dominant parties wanting to impose new names.

通过考察 1935 年南罗得西亚（今津巴布韦）恩克尔多恩镇管理委员会将镇名改为宪章的尝试，本文探讨了地方重命名的争议政治及其与公众记忆、身份和归属感的斗争的交叉点. 它考察了作为南罗得西亚白人社会组成部分的南非荷兰语人口如何反对重新命名恩克尔多伦镇的计划，并通过保留南非荷兰语名称恩克尔多伦来保护他们的身份。本文通过阐明基于英语和南非荷兰语白人之间种族差异的南罗得西亚定居者社区内的分歧，增加了南部非洲关于白人身份、白人和白人社会的文献。此外，它考察了地名作为人们集体记忆和遗产建设的体现的重要性，通过将地名与更广泛的概念（例如地方的社会建构和集体记忆）联系起来，为当前关于地名纪念实践的讨论做出了贡献。地名重命名通常是有争议的，因为地名包含了人们的文化体验和集体遗产。因此，地方重命名成为被殖民人民、受影响的社会群体以及想要强加新名称的国家或社会政治主导政党之间的争论点。通过将地名纪念实践与更广泛的概念（例如场所的社会建构和集体记忆）联系起来，为当前关于地名纪念实践的讨论做出贡献。地名重命名通常是有争议的，因为地名包含了人们的文化体验和集体遗产。因此，地方重命名成为被殖民人民、受影响的社会群体以及想要强加新名称的国家或社会政治主导政党之间的争论点。通过将地名纪念实践与更广泛的概念（例如场所的社会建构和集体记忆）联系起来，为当前关于地名纪念实践的讨论做出贡献。地名重命名通常是有争议的，因为地名包含了人们的文化体验和集体遗产。因此，地方重命名成为被殖民人民、受影响的社会群体以及想要强加新名称的国家或社会政治主导政党之间的争论点。