It’s about freedom of choice
“APARTHEID ways die hard on SA beaches” (January 4) refers.
Apartheid is formally dead and this is ordained in our much-lauded constitution — the same one that guarantees the individual freedom of choice. I have no wish to visit Mnandi Beach or, for that matter, Third Beach at Clifton, but do have the right to, should I so wish. What more do we need in our democracy? Why stoke the ashes of the past? — AG Soderlund, Glencairn
Rather focus on pollution
I DON’T see it as a failure to connect South Africans, more as a preference or choice, access and parking availability being the major role players. I am from the Strand area and do not wish the chaos, destruction and beach pollution on any other beach in South Africa.
A more appropriate article would be about plastic pollution on our beaches and the impact that this will have on our main food source in the Western Cape. — Fritz Sass, by e-mail
Strand gets the mix right
NEXT time you do a survey on beaches, visit Strand beach in the Helderberg. No segregation here. — CC Strand, by SMS
Don’t spread the poison
ONE of the unfortunate developments with Facebook and other social media is that authors seem to feel no need for normal morals, human decency or politeness. What is written can be as rude, unkind and racist as one likes.
Your newspaper gives legitimacy to the remarks made about the (black) people on the beach by printing them. — Helen Gibson, Durban
They’re rotten inside
THOSE still attached to the colour of their skin, their insides are rotten! — Themba Shongwe, by e-mail
Why quote the racists?
RACIAL tension is increasing in our country. What does not help is the Sunday Times quoting three racial comments in the article.
What do the editor, reporters and staff think they are contributing to building bridges in our country? — Eugene O’ Brien, Northcliff