DA wants 'offensive' apartheid 'African Bathing Beach' signage taken down in Durban

eThekwini Municipality have refused to remove an offending signage at Durban’s Laguna Beach which reads: “African Bathing Beach,” according to a report.

DA ward councillor was doing a site visit on the beach on Wednesday morning and was shocked when he spotted an electricity box with an offending signage.

Upon seeing the signage, Councillor Martin Meyer told News24 that he immediately took a photograph and e-mailed the City a request to take down the offending signage.

But the Municipality told the website that it has no intention of removing the sign as it considers it to be “a historical artefact similar to the statues".

eThekwini spokesperson Tozi Mthethwa told the website: “Some of these signs are historical artefacts similar to the statues that were erected during the apartheid regime. These have been allowed to remain to remind us of the road we have travelled as a country.”

“I find it hard to believe that 21 years into our democracy, this has not yet been rectified,” said Meyer.

“It is a reminder of our dark and painful past.”