Today’s posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger:
A beach cleanup on Kings Beach:
We spent the day at MacArthur Baths and I spotted this group of kids busy with a beach cleanup on King’s Beach. Well done guys on doing your part to keep our coastline clean and beautiful.
Source: Port Elizabeth Daily Photo.
Port Elizabeth’s Mandela figure:
The Mandela figure at the head of The Voting Line piece on the Donkin Reserve has become a very popular photographic subject since it’s installation as part of Route 67 either on it’s own or with people posing next to it. It is sad though that this is the only Mandela figure that visitors get to see with the only two others ones I know of being a life-size figure standing inside City Hall and the Madiba Shirt piece on the university campus. Port Elizabeth really needs a big Mandela statue or sculpture somewhere in an accessible spot where tourists and visitors can get to see and take photos with it. Something along the lines of the Mandela statues in Sandton City or Bloemfontein. And I’m not the only one so let’s hope somebody, either the municipality or private sector, actions the idea sooner rather than later specially seeing that we live in a metro named after Nelson Mandela.
Source: Port Elizabeth Daily Photo.
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Port Elizabethan
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An emailed comment from Mike:
Although laudable it is not their job “to keep our coastline clean and beautiful” except in their personal capacity whenever they visit a beach or elsewhere and to educate those around them to do the same.
If all visitors to the beach did their part we wouldn’t have this problem.
I would imagine such a clean up is the sole job for the municipality who gave themselves a lot of self praise over the Christmas season about policing, cleaning up, etc., but what about afterwards. No metro or SAPS in sight nor cleaning staff.
I’m against using children to do unpaid labour to clean up somebody else’s mess which is also a health hazzard to those doing it as most often these kids are not wearing any protective gloves, plus there is the danger of broken glass.