Friday, December 24, 2010

Mtunzini is being spoiled even before it becomes a mine dump



Mtunzini's beautiful forest view recently suffered a brutal assault. Some aesthetic genius decided to stick his erection right in what used to be an unspoiled view. Does the visually perceivable space not belong to everyone who can see it? What is next? Billboards? Sky scrapers?
I was shocked when I walked along my favourite trail marked as 'Chalets' through the forest into the grass field next to Nature's way backpackers on the way to the beach. Suddenly there was this big white blotch where there used to be green. As you can see in the accompanying photos. Shocked because I was led to believe that people in this town have some aesthetic values they set out to protect. And other people have had to break down their third story developments in the past. Strict restrictions are placed on everyone else. And somehow this entity managed to impose their tastelessness on us.
It's all part of of a larger aesthetic value decay. Since the mining industry in the body of Exxaro will start mining the space 100 meters from village, the whole place will look like a mine dump, so what difference does one boil make?


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