Bowling Green 1940's (those cars look more from the 1930’s era…)
Beach front 1940's (also more 1930’s)
Fresh fruit n veg – 1950 / 60’s
Beach front 1940's
BEACH FRONT 1960's / 1970's
BEACHFRONT 2009
DURBAN BEACHFRONT NEW YEARS 2011
Durban Beach New Years day 2012
· 69 children were left behind and by the end of the week, 31 had still not found their parents. And all parents/adults had gone home to JHB by that stage.
· 9 bodies washed up on the beach in the week after New Year. None of them were ever reported missing, and none have yet been identified.
· The beach was so full of defecation that they had to plough/dig it in to the beach rather than pick it all up!
Got something to say? Then leave a comment!
Posted by jared on the 19/11/2012 08:48
hahahahahahahah! T I A
Posted by Erle on the 19/11/2012 11:41
Glad the south coast doesn't look like this... :/
Posted by Justin B on the 19/11/2012 12:37
It's a Monday and I don't want to start a debate but I think this pictorial is walking a fine line between wrong and right.
Posted by Billy Harker on the 19/11/2012 13:15
This Pictoral is utter BULLSHIT and Biased.
Durban beachfront has been completely redesigned and Upgrade and is Now South Africa's BEST Beach!
Posted by Jade Lee on the 19/11/2012 13:32
This is both very sad and disgusting. Poor children that were left behind to fend for themselves, people dying and no-one actually caring enough to file a missing persons or go identify bodies, and the defecation issue! Sis sis sis!!! I believe there are toilets down at the beachfront that are kept quite clean too....... WTF!
Posted by Domestos on the 19/11/2012 15:07
That TBS ran this pictoral has me seriously considering cancelling my subscription.
It is sly, manipulative and covertly racist and I am angered and offended.
You okes should be ashamed.
Posted by Domestos on the 19/11/2012 15:15
@Billy - and you're right bru, the Durban beachfront rocks.
If the author of this stupid and insulting pictoral wants to discuss the facts around drowning, abandoned children and shitting on the beaches, then discuss it directly. Rather than making his/her point through false comparisons and misrepresentation of one of the most awesome beaches where so many South Africans enjoy happy memories (yes, even on New Years days)
Posted by John Smith on the 19/11/2012 15:24
Inappropriate and all that aside, I don't see how this has anything to do with surfing. Was honestly expecting the pictorial to be about SURFING (you know because this is a surf mag) in Durban through the ages. Might as well have been an pictorial about the plant life. Is the editor sleeping?
Posted by jono on the 19/11/2012 15:31
looks like most of you have no eyeballs in your head - the pics reveal the reality. you seriously think that a handful of 'clean toilets are going to suffice for this???. the sea was the better option as the ecolli levels measured were off the scale! Your heads are in the sand .... oh.. by the way ...were you there on the day??. I was and on duty.
Posted by Concerned on the 19/11/2012 16:25
Ouch Bomb team this kind of propaganda is reminiscent of the apartheid era, WTF were you thinking?
Sorry but I'm out & won't be renewing our subscription! This kind of stuff will only destroy our already fragile nation!?!
Posted by S7UW13 on the 19/11/2012 16:32
I think its an excellent article, I remember Durban as a kid in the 70's. It was epic, I was born at Addington and spent most of my young life on the beach. So sad now. Now I constantly have to fish glass out of my 4yo kids feet.
Posted by ML on the 19/11/2012 16:46
Bombsurf.....this is a shitty piece of journalism....take it down! Time to go back to the Zag.
Posted by dave long on the 19/11/2012 16:49
This has got to be one of the most bogus, outrageous posts from the bomb. Seriously poor.
Posted by Brian on the 19/11/2012 16:56
The intention of this is difficult to understand - it seemed to start out as a interesting pictorial documentation of how the beachfront has changed, went to a "before and after, what is this country coming to" commentory like those terrible joke chain mails one sometimes gets and finishes by highlighting some real issues. Very sad however you look at it.
Posted by TrevorG on the 19/11/2012 17:52
Am I missing something here? The overcrowding and associated risks are reality. How only 9 drownings took place was only due to providence and/or excellent life savers. The numbers on the beaches should never have been allowed as it is a time bomb!
What is the issue, the shit? Impossible for that quantity of people to be adequately serviced regarding toilets etc. I live 300metres from T.View beach and dread Xmas and New Years day. The beachfront is a no-go zone purely due to the sheer volume of people.Cold water or not, I always anticipate fatalities especially when the weather is good. Sirens from rescue vehicles,ambulances etc start from 11h00 and end at 22h00.
TOO MANY PEOPLE!!! Who said anything racist? Billy Harker and others seems to think that the article disses the beachfront. I do not see this. All I see is too many people in a confined space with facilities that will never cope. By the way this has everything to do with surfing as we use the beaches all year round. The glass left behind is not bio-degradable and is as dangerous as shit!
Also remember that P.E. East London and all coastal venues suffer from an influx of biblical proportions on these days. Bottom line is that beaches need to be closed once it becomes a danger to those using them. Only problem is that this could incite a riot/anarchy. The post has opened a can of worms and irrespective of your political leanings showcases the extent of the issue. No amount of sugar coating will lessen the facts!
Posted by Brian on the 19/11/2012 20:44
Yes, you are missing something here - the article's only intention seems to be to compare how the situation was previously to how it is now, hence the title. If the intention was to highlight and try to generate debate around how to resolve these issues, what was the point of the photos shown prior to 2009? Let us not forget that these facilities and beaches were available to whites only until very recently and even though you are correct in saying that racism was not mentioned, the insinuation is glaring and has been pointed out by a number of people who have posted here.
Posted by John McCarthy on the 19/11/2012 22:53
To anyone who thinks there is apolitical agenda in publishing these pics, you guys are smoking your socks!
Around about now I guess I should be hiding behind some disclaimer about publishing some other guys pictures and words and absolving myself and theBOMBsurf of any responsibility of the consequences. Except I'm not going to. I found this slide show fascinating for what the images present about the waves themselves and the draw that the ocean has to humanity, regardless of your skin colour. If anyone wants to investigate my (or by extention my publication/ website) racist tendencies perhaps start with a short chat to Cass Collier who defied the group areas act while staying at my house in Durban while we were still groms and surfing North Beach when it wasn't open to 'black surfers'. Then move onto the records of the old feared special branch about a crew of surfers (me, Mark Schroenne and Carl Preller) who stopped the longest train in the world at Elands Bay on a national 'go slow day' orchestrated by the then banned ANC, then go to any of the kids at the Umthombo surf club in Durban and ask them which of the local surfers at The New Pier has donated more of his own personal surfboards, spent more time encouraging and guiding them and teaching them about the nuances of The New Pier than I have, once you are done with that get hold of Nic Vaughn Jones in Mozambique and ask him how the Mamoli Breakfast club started and how 62 orphans in Mozambique have had a decent breakfast for 2 years as a result of the project that theBOMBsurf started in partnership with one of it's advertisers, future Life, then when you have finished doing all that how about you come down to Dairy Beach this weekend and help us to run the first entirely Zulu surf contest which was funded by a partnership between a BOMBsurf reader, SSA and facilitated and organised by theBOMBsurf in partnership with Umthombo and SSA?
Now re-look at these pictures and see the following:
1. The old 'sawtooth' beach shape fascilitated by the solid groynes that saw true world class waves at the head of both the North Beach and Bay groynes. These were the waves that Shaun Tomson refers to as having allowed him to figure out tube riding the way he did and become a global pioneer in tube riding. FYI there is a group of surfers right now of which TBS is a part that is lobbying the City of Durban to re-fill the hollow piers to try and recreate some of that perfection of yesterday.
2. The huge opportunity of taking surfing to the masses in SA. This weekend coming up is the first step with the Kushay' igagasi competition at Dairy Beach. The City of Durban, Umthombo, SSA and theBOMBsurf are all working together on an extraordinary project that sees the products of the Sports and Recreation upliftment program combining with The City of Durban, SSA, Umthombo and a local surf media entity (TBS) to fascilitate the first entirely isizulu surfing contest in the world... pretty cool actually.
3. The unbelievable operating conditions of ALL of our lifeguards on certain days regardless of their colour and how incredibly under-resourced they are in trying to safely manage that incredible demand.
To 'concerned' 'ML' and 'Domestos' who attempt to threaten or play us off against Zag, (which we happen to believe is an excellent though very different product to ours) we'll never take you seriously. You guys are the ultimate cowards of cyberspace - if you are bold enough to have an opinion, then be bold enough to put your name to it.
To everyone else thank you for your comments.
It is through dialog that we break down these kind of stupid stereotypes.
Posted by Beverley Smith on the 20/11/2012 07:01
How can photographs from different time periods with no comment besides the date be racist? Grow some brains and perspective the people who commented that these photos are racist. All they show is the change in the beachfront which reflects the change in the whole country. This is reality not racism.
Posted by kel on the 20/11/2012 07:04
I read and follow this with some mixed emotions, I feel the pictorial is a little directed to the lack of civility and social structure of the black African as opposed the that of the white South African.
I am a little surprized and slightly annoyed at the Ivory Tower clowns, I suggest those who are pointing their crooked little fingers and threats worn like baseball caps, (pointless and only fashionable if you are on the beach front on news day) hit the beach and join the mass pool parties and bathing ritual with the rest of our bretheren on this celebration day 01012013.
take pics to share with us that this infact was your choice of new years day celebration and then perhaps we would take you guys serious.
for those who claim we have the best beach front !!?/? we have toxic water, effluent flowing down storm water drains from the very same section of society who choose to use said drains as toilets, we have few if any showers running to wash of the dirty water, you cannot park your car anywhere on the beach front without the risk of theft or break in.
I am on the side of the Bomb guys esp JM.
however this is the now and the future, how we deal with it and how we continue to interact whether from our PC leveling gay claims of action against those who bring this to the attention of us all or those who are actually willing to show the decline, rock the boat and stand up to get the attention that is required to change.
oh and just for the record those who head to the Zag and those who hate reality so much your prepared to bury your heads in the sand , shame on you, society in SA has 11 languages that means many cultures, your dreaming if all cultures can actually be the same , and shame for you if you think we should all accept and adopt the weaker
Kelvyn Davidson.... real name, real opinion.
Posted by Michelle on the 20/11/2012 08:22
Can some people just get of their political bandwagon for once in a while. So what if they found the photos offensive - that's life. We are always going to offend someone at some time - that's the reality. I found it interesting.
Posted by pat flanagan on the 20/11/2012 08:23
I've seen Facebook groups with this same kind of content that denigrates the political status quo. The distinct difference between the 'good old day' pictures and the more recent ones on this page, tells the same story that some expats get so excited about - pictures that reinforces immovable twisted racist beliefs. Durban Beachfront as it is now, provides pleasure to a large and diverse local and visitor population on a daily basis without much incident. The exception being a handful of days each year when every popular beach in SA experiences overcrowding. So I ask what purpose do these pictures serve?
Posted by Justin Baker on the 20/11/2012 08:45
This is just my opinion but to me these photos serve only to show a comparison between white apartheid South Africa and the country we know today - though from a jaded perspective of a few days a year.
I do however. agree that better controls need to be put in place to manage such huge crowds.
I have no doubt that Bombsurf does great work through it's good work in Moz and with Umthombo etc.
The fact is that this same pictorial can be found on some very right wing websites which I dont think promote anything good about our country.
Posted by Trevor Gray (G) on the 20/11/2012 09:33
Well said John! It would seem as if the inequalities and racist practices of the past have now morphed into a form of baton that can be used to beat down any observations regarding the abuse of power or the inability to do what is needed to ensure ALL segments of our population are catered for.
The facts are indisputable, too many people with insufficient facilities and services to safeguard them. If you have 100 000 people in a confined space, there should be adequate measures in place to ensure the safety of all. Example is a stadium event.Imagine if there is a shark spotting or such( I know there are nets) The ensuing stampede in water will cause mass deaths.Mecca stampedes last year is a good example. This is not happening! Instead some hide behind accusing others of perceived agendas and justifying the issue with bland comments that it only happens a couple of times a year. I guess that means it is OK to have numerous children lost, multiple drownings, chronic fouling of the beach and an element of anti-social behaviour that results in criminal acts. Those who condone this will be nowhere near the zone on the days.
Come on guys, play the ball not the man! Too many people are at risk. The authorities need to ensure that the volume of people is equal to their needs.Anything less is negligence!!
Posted by ML on the 20/11/2012 10:16
Well done John, impressive stats. However, no one was questioning your commitment to the cause. I just feel the article is in bad taste, and not a true reflection of the Durban bechfront at all. Please enlighten us on what the picture of the Catalina, or a picture of a fruit and veg truck, compared to the thousands of people (black or white, in this case black) using the beachfront on one or two days of the year has anything to do with Durban through the ages. Get off your high horse, do some research, and you will see this pictoral has history. I simply do not understand what this article is trying to convey.
Posted by Syd on the 20/11/2012 10:58
This pictorial is labelled "Durban through the ages" and it jumps from what looks like the 1960s/70s to only Christmas/News Years pictures post-2009. I do not see how that is a fair depiction of what the beachfront is like on a daily basis 365 days of the year - The Durban beachfront is a vibrant multi-cultural safe family environment. These pictures show what happens 1 week out of the year.
I don't think this pictorial does Durban any justice and it definitely does nothing for Durban tourism.
This is poor/ biased journalism and we can only hope that this website does not have an audience outside of South Africa. Shame.
Posted by Jess Cash on the 20/11/2012 12:58
Goodness me, those images from the 60s look horrific. Who on earth would want to go to the beach with a handful of boring white people?
Posted by Jamii on the 20/11/2012 13:33
Honestly, I don't understand what all this fuss is about!
All I see is the gradual transformation of the Durban Beachfront of the over the past 70's year or so which includes the shift & increase of popularity.
I'm certain that the DBfront built environment was ever designed to adequitely cater for such a hugh influx of people and the city managers must cringe at the difficulties they face each peak season.
Why do we always have to association everything to the inbalances of our current liestyles and cultural difference that exist? By doing so we just prepetuate the intolerences of our differences of racial paranoia and scratch open the wound we want to desperately heal!
Personally, on Boxing or New Years Day I look for the most remote beach to try avoid the overcrowding. I know that on an average summer day at Strand ( and any other popular and accessable beachers ) we see enourmous litter,cars break-ins, overcrowding, drownings and lost children with awal parents which unfortunately is reflectitive of our current circumstances.
Rather that berate John for being the messenger, rather use your frustration in healing our social circumstances and seek a way to provide a solution to these indifferences that upset up.
Posted by Warren Loom on the 20/11/2012 13:57
Those picks of the seventies paddling pools bring back so many cool memories of when I was about 6 years old. I can actually feel the steel that covered the slides and taste the chlorine in the water.
Thanks for the flash back. Excellent.
The Durban Beachfront is still the best place in the world to be every morning before work.
Mmmmm. Surf or coffee this morning?
Posted by Andy Davis on the 20/11/2012 17:27
John this photo story is racist because of two things. Context and omission. The whole thing is set up to show the 'digression' from colonial / apartheid Durban to the present day. The final 'facts' at the end of the article give it away. This is not a piece of journalism focussing on how Durban has changed through the ages, it's a racially loaded indictment of how things have changed for the worse and it only shows a small fragment of the story.
Answer me this, why are there no images of a normal day at the Durban beachfront, which is hands down the most democratic and racially integrated public space in South Africa? Where are the Zulu families taking a walk, the black and white surfers, the Indian rollerbladers, all the young families pushing prams, the joggers, the white bergies, the mime artists and street hustlers, the fitness freaks? The only images of post-apartheid South Africa are of the one day, at the height of the summer season, when the Durban beachfront is radically overloaded with people.
If you want to take issue with what happens at the Durban beachfront on New Years each year and over the summer season, write an article focussed on that. Do some research, present your argument logically and debate the issues. Don't conflate it with some kind of historical timeline that paints the racist pleasantville of enforced racial segregation under apartheid and colonialism as a nostalgic and idyllic situation in comparison to what it is today. That's just stupid.
Your history of activism means nothing in this case, because everyone's judging the article on its merits alone - which in my opinion is a massive misstep from TBS. It's horrible. You should just recall it and apologise for any offence caused, because frankly it's indefensible. In fact your history of activism and TBS' support for the Kushay' igagasi competition at Dairy Beach and Umthombo in general, just makes it even more bizarre that you can't see why this turd of an article is so offensive to so many people.
Posted by C on the 20/11/2012 17:30
Well done John... You are a fucking muppet.
Posted by Raymond Joseph on the 20/11/2012 17:41
I think that John McCarthy protests too much in his explainer in the comments appended to this pictorial. Going by what he says he's done in the past, he should have known better - and should have anticipated the response from some. I find it deeply offensive and wonder just what was going through the minds of theBombSurf's editorial team when they decided to publish it. And judging by McCarthy's response, he might as well have added the disclaimer that "some of my best friends are black" alongside the pictures. I'd be interested in what Cass Collier and his other black friends have to say about it?
Posted by Charlie on the 20/11/2012 18:41
I am totally blown away at how poor an effort this is to depict Durban beach front...it is offensive.
You must be smoking your own socks John McCarthy if you think this is interesting, engaging and valuable content. Very poor show Bombsurf.
Posted by John McCarthy on the 20/11/2012 23:17
Wow, 'Durban through the ages, a pictorial journey by Justin Gurr' certainly has attracted a lot of attention this week.
Frankly I'm surprised at all the righteous racial/anti racial commentary this has evoked. To be honest I didn't see any of that going into posting this piece, but then again maybe I'm just a shortsighted waterlogged fool, who looks for the best in people. I'm not hiding behind that, neither am I passing the buck for publishing this slideshow which was ultimately my choice, but I am surprised by the reaction. I'm also surprised at how little discussion there has been about the wave quality of yesteryear vs today. The one image in this slideshow clearly illustrates the 'saw tooth effect' that helped create the legendary breaks of yesteryear. In surfing archaeology terms this picture is gold as it shows the engineers of today what they need to do to recreate that incredible wave quality, yet everyone has seemed to miss it, I find that strange for a bunch of surfers.
Every slideshow we publish is guilty of 'context and omission' on some level. If everyone so passionately involved in this discussion went out and created their own slideshow of Durban through the ages, they'd all be different to varying degrees. What is wrong with that? John McCarthy's vs Andy Davis's gee that would be an interesting one ;) My point being that we should all be free to express our individual opinions and yes, also take umbrage at something you find offensive provided you have the balls to comment under your real name. Nowhere do we say that this is the definitive slideshow of Durban through the ages. This is one man's perspective facilitated by theBOMBsurf, that is all it is, no more, no less.
Me thinks we're turning this into a storm in a teacup.
As the editor in chief of theBOMBsurf I find myself in a curious position. As the corridors of cyberspace echo with the feared taint of the 'racist' brush, I can't help but grin at the irony of my own personal circumstance. That said I will not kowtow or apologise for loading this slideshow. If you are offended, I'm truly sorry that you are, but understand that you are welcome to send me your own edited, contextualised version and I reserve the right to publish that even if it might piss off even more people.
Posted by charlie on the 21/11/2012 08:02
John McCarthy - that is the most ignorant load of sh1t i have ever read....i actually hope your website and magazine go away if this is what you have to offer.
Posted by pat flanagan on the 21/11/2012 08:38
The sociopolitical angle on the Durban Beachfront has been thrashed to within an inch of it's life. What we might find of more interest is the history of Durban's waves and how they have changed.
From the day that the first sailboat landed, when the first 'beach boys' rowed in on the 'breakers' in their cutters. When there were no piers and the Umgeni flowed into the harbour, when the Ovington http://www.fad.co.za/Resources/ovi/Pic-312.jpg was wrecked at Tramps in the middle of the last century. When the South Pier was extended and virtually eliminated South Easterly swells getting into famous breaks like the Wedge and Lido.http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomopouli/2807728751/sizes/l/in/photostream/
The negative impact that occurred when the rock piers were replaced by concrete ones at the Bay and North and the positive impact of the New Pier.
This post does a job though, because it underlines the fact that the pictures on it irritate the respondents and that is good.
Whats more, there are people talking to the council of Durban about grooming the beaches without the mandate from the surfers of Durban who they supposedly represent. The question I ask these people (and I know who they are) is: Have they taken the time to reference the natural history, the marine topography or institute any scientific study of how to reinvigorate the dead breaks south of the New Pier and north of North Beach?
Posted by Trevor Gray (G) on the 21/11/2012 10:05
The Durban beach front post has certainly created much hype! As Pat correctly states, the real issue is for the correct stewardship for ensuring that all true water enthusiasts are able to voice their opinions and concerns. This is not limited to Durban.Though the proposed enlarging of the harbour will have huge consequences up the coast. The average member of the public has no clue of the dynamics and frailty of the tidal zone and cannot be expected to fathom the potential damage that is caused by poor planning/incompetence, arrogance or greed.
Our coastline is littered with examples of this The biggest being the container terminal in Cape Town,St Francis harbour, the proposed nuclear station,Vetches etc.
Could we please stop posturing and start to align ourselves with those that can influence the powers that be to refrain from seeing the coast as a dumping ground or source of revenue. If we do not do so, our sea we enjoy will become a toxic bath and cocktail of fatal microbes.
Posted by Lance Reed on the 21/11/2012 10:49
"Best beach in the world"......my arse!!!!!!!
The pics bring back fond memories....my dad would take me down every weekend in the seventies and we would watch the surfing at bay and wedge , trampolines at XL - it was good. I will not be flogging myself over the changes. Nothing wrong with the article John !
Just take a look at the town beach sand ..... if you can call it that
Posted by Lance Reed on the 21/11/2012 10:50
"Best beach in the world"......my arse!!!!!!!
The pics bring back fond memories....my dad would take me down every weekend in the seventies and we would watch the surfing at bay and wedge , trampolines at XL - it was good. I will not be flogging myself over the changes. Nothing wrong with the article John !
Just take a look at the town beach sand ..... if you can call it that
Posted by Lance Reed on the 21/11/2012 10:50
"Best beach in the world"......my arse!!!!!!!
The pics bring back fond memories....my dad would take me down every weekend in the seventies and we would watch the surfing at bay and wedge , trampolines at XL - it was good. I will not be flogging myself over the changes. Nothing wrong with the article John !
Just take a look at the town beach sand ..... if you can call it that
Posted by Martin McCrory on the 21/11/2012 13:08
@ Domestos https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151546560283677&set=a.10150374458833677.436106.683558676&type=1&ref=nf
Someone's got their head in the toilet here. Only stinking thinking can interpret this as racist. "Mr/Ms Anonymous" must have been born way before 94, still got their brain stuck in the drain, did nothing during the injustice, and so medicates his retro guilt by tossing soggy loo paper at TBS. And hey, howz the manipo on your subs?! Jeez bro, if you need an appointment, call me!
Posted by Raymond De Lange on the 22/11/2012 17:02
These animals call themselves human beings,its in their DNA to destroy and live in filfth!!!
Posted by John McCarthy on the 23/11/2012 09:36
Raymond your comment is out of line for so many reasons. Please do not use this forum for expressing unashamedly racist views.
Posted by Samora Chapman on the 23/11/2012 15:57
This slideshow has nothing to do with the waves or your social work John McCarthy... and your attempts to divert attention from the fact that it is a piece of racist propaganda are not fooling anyone. Big up to Andy Davis for hitting the nail on the head.
Posted by dave long on the 23/11/2012 16:48
john, don't you think raymond's racist comment makes it pretty clear that this is a terrible post? Just remember, nobody is saying that you are a racist, perhaps just an oversight on your part, thats all.
Posted by MAGDA on the 27/11/2012 15:51
PATETIES!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Antonie on the 27/11/2012 17:45
Its just another true scenario of a burning corrupt country folding.......wonder how many libtards will go spend the day there? Come on ...it should be nice....
Posted by Bill Sonoghue on the 28/11/2012 10:28
Ah......Mr. Editor-in Chief you foolish, silly, bigot of a man.
This is exactly the type of misguided, sub-standard hypocritical journalism we've come to expect from the muppets at 'theJOHNsurf'. Touche Andy Davis, you've hit the nail on the proverbial head. I only wish Mr. McCarthy was humble enough to admit his faux pas, cease trying to redirect the content attention to wave quality deterioration and subsequently do us all a favour and pull the plug, on what has been from the start, an abhorrence in an already-corrupt domestic surf media scene.
Posted by TREV on the 03/12/2012 15:06
While I don't always agree with what John or TBS has to say, I do agree that there are a lot of racial biggots amongst you. I don't see any of you helping the previously disadvantaged on the beaches or in mozam? Please get of your righteous temples and face reality. From tranquil beaches and bowling greens to smashed windows, stolen cars and equipment, to using the beach as a toilet. And that's not just one day of the year but too often. Just today I witnessed an incident in the beach front that is racially charged from one side but plainly just a matter of common decency from the other persons perspective. How can a kd still be left there days later. Never mind the bodies that just never get id'd. Get a grip you lot. John keep up your hard work with TBS and your humanitarian efforts.
Posted by TREV on the 03/12/2012 15:39
Ps. Andy we will see you at the beach then new years day, having a surf? Or are you helping out at the lost children office
Posted by cnut on the 20/12/2012 14:08
Lol @ Andy Davis posting from CT and his leftie mob of 'journalists' backing him up from the mahala.co.za head office.
Posted by Johann on the 25/01/2013 17:59
Shit the hell up you complaining dumbass bastards. Get a grip on reality and stop smoking meth. !! look at the pics and see it for what it is... reality
Posted by Theo on the 15/02/2013 16:39
I'm still trying to understand the point of this series of pictures and the comment at the end. Is it to show the Nirvana of the past against the apocalypse of the present? Other parts of the world celebrate when the local populace use facilties in their thousands or better in their millions. When millions descend on Rio or Miami or Bondi or Brighton it is celebrated. The sub-text is quite obvious here. If you don't get it then toughies ... For the record the beachfront has had a multi-million rand upgrade and looks nothing like it once did.
Posted by cahippy on the 21/03/2013 13:21
It is what it is, but sadly all good things must come to an end. To all those bitching about this post being racist, let me ask you all this would you mingle with the masses? The difference back then and now is who is in charge.
Posted by David Smillie on the 31/03/2013 21:46
I see now why we were so protective about hogging ownership of our beautiful beaches. It so good while it lasted
Posted by John Doe on the 21/04/2013 13:16
It's a conspiracy ! The beaches are actually marvelous, those pictures were photoshopped ! Also Farm murders are not higher than the national average, in fact, there are no murders. Nobody get's raped in South Africa either. Apartheid killed 6 billion blacks and in the New South Africa whites numbers have increased exponentially because blacks give them jobs and build infrastructure, schools, hospitals, 10 universities at mostly their own cost.
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Catalina in Durban Bay 1940's 
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