Durban North bus stop mural project brings the colour
It is all part of a project involving The Heart of Durban North, Enviro Fixers Durban North and the Durban North Conservancy.
FOUR bus stops in the Broadway precinct have been transformed with uplifting, colourful murals from street artist Giffy Duminy.
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It is all part of a project involving The Heart of Durban North, Enviro Fixers Durban North and the Durban North Conservancy.
The Heart of Durban North, a collective involving local businesses, spearheaded by Kensington SuperSPAR, has already seen various projects to uplift both the Swapo Road (Broadway) and Adelaide Tambo Drive (Kensington) precinct.
The project started when a team of volunteers, including Enviro Fixers Durban North member Ellysa Entwistle, gave the bus stops a new lick of paint and scraped off graffiti tags, while also removing illegal adverts pasted on the panels of the bus stops.
Ashleigh Rosenbaum, owner of Kensington SuperSPAR and member of the collective, said she was thrilled with all the murals.
“I’ve been an admirer of Giffy’s work for so long, and I absolutely love all of the murals. The butterflies, the plants and everything he has chosen represent everything we, as a collective, stand for – promoting indigenous plants and caring for the environment. It has also become a talking point for the community which has been awesome. The feedback has been so positive, and that’s what we wanted – for people to admire and enjoy looking at them, as well as them being functioning bus stops for the area.
Rosenbaum added that the Heart of Durban North and Enviro Fixers are hoping to inspire other businesses and even individuals to adopt more bus stops in the area with nature-based art.
With the mural project completed, she said the collective would look at the Adopt a Trolley initiative for the area.
The project is a localised cleaning and greening solution, created by environmental and non-profit organisation (NPO) Adopt-a-River.
Once started, the trolley will operate daily, and all waste collected will be separated into recyclable items.
“We hope to have a dedicated trolley for the Durban North area, which would help in litter collection but also go a way towards helping with recycling items. We’ve partnered with Enviro Fixers Durban North for this project,” she said.
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