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Race row erupts after ‘black visitors cleared from beach’

JAVIRA SSEBWAMI | PML Daily Staff WriterbyJAVIRA SSEBWAMI | PML Daily Staff Writer
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Animal rights activists clashed with protesters who sacrificed a sheep on the beach. (PHOTO BY NEWS24)

CAPE TOWN – Protesters have taken to one of Cape Town’s most picturesque beaches after private security guards were accused of ordering black visitors to leave, BBC reported on Saturday afternoon.

The guards, hired by local residents, allegedly cleared the Clifton 4th beach of tourists on Saturday.

According to BBC, demonstrators say black beachgoers were unfairly targeted, but the firm denies closing the beach and says it only acts to protect residents from crime.

Beaches and other public areas were segregated during the apartheid era.

Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato told BBC that the security firm “had no authority to ask anyone to leave Clifton beach”.

“We will not allow any private organisations to limit access to our public spaces,” he said in a statement.

Deputy Police Minister Bongani Mkongi vowed to “go hard on the security company”.

“This is a property of the state, property of the people and therefore we don’t need security companies here,” he told journalists.

Mayor Plato said that the guards had “asked people of all races to leave” and had not targeted black people specifically.

Demonstrators, who converged on the beach on Friday evening, disputed this assertion.

Activists say that black visitors were asked to leave by a private security firm. (NEWS24 PHOTO)

“These private security guards… are actually briefed to not allow black people who appear to look like they are from the townships on to the beach,” local activist Chumani Maxwele told the News 24 website.

Mr Maxwele, who instigated a social media protest under the hashtag #ReclaimClifton, oversaw the slaughter of a sheep in a ritual that protesters said would cleanse the beach of racism.

A small number of animal rights activists protested against the act.

Alwyn Landman, chief executive of the PPA security firm, whose job he said was to protect residents from criminal activity, denied that the company had closed the beach at all.

He told News 24 that police had cleared the area after a crime had been committed.

“It was absolute mayhem and [the police] were really doing a great job to stabilise the situation,” he said.

 

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