DEAR Editor;
We, the residents of Mtwalume are looking for our stolen signboard and need the public’s help!
Most recently a few of us donated towards and arranged to have a double-sided rip current awareness signboard made which was erected near the Flat Rocks area.
A double-sided sign was decided on as there were regular near-drownings at Flat Rocks.
The main aim of the sign was to make people aware of rip currents, how to identify them and how to escape if caught in one.
The two identical signs fitted back to back were removed from the frame.
The sign was erected on March 21 and was removed on April 7. The size of the sign is 1,200mm wide and 1,000mm high which does not include the posts on either side. The top of the sign would have been approximately 2,000mm high when mounted on the poles.
Unfortunately there is no security camera footage of the incident.
Those who removed the sign will perhaps try to sell them to either a scrap metal dealer or to someone in another town along the coast.
They were designed by a few of us here and are unique, so it will be easy to identify.
It was erected to possibly save lives, it is beyond us how someone can actually remove something like that.
If anyone knows anything, contact Barry Griessel on 076 2223236 or Errol Holder at 066 232 0081.
ERROL HOLDER
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