Book fair organisers say no to fireworks
Kiru Naidoo, the director of the First Sunday’s book fair, said the idea behind the event at Mitchell Park was to put an end to fireworks to commemorate Guy Fawkes.
AHEAD of the upcoming Green Diwali Festival at Mitchell Park, organisers of the Durban Book fair on Sunday, 6 October, erected an effigy of Guy Fawkes and provided a petition for the public to sign, to pardon Guy Fawkes.
Fawkes famously tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London in 1605 and was executed. On 5 November each year, his straw effigy is carried aloft and usually ends with a grisly fate.
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Kiru Naidoo, the director of the First Sunday’s book fair, said the idea behind the event at Mitchell Park was to put an end to fireworks to commemorate this event. It is expected that thousands more will petition for Fawkes’s pardon from 11 to 13 October during Mitchell Park Trust’s Green Diwali celebrations.
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