K-word on Tutu mural
INSULT: Racist slur in red ink
Racists have defaced the mural of archbishop Desmond Tutu in the Cape Town CBD.
The colourful display of the Anglican cleric is located in Longmarket Street, and racists scrawled “Ek is ‘n Kaffer” in red ink on it.
Cape Town videographers Wesley Fester and Saamwiet Moos made the shocking discovery on Saturday afternoon.
The pair had just returned from a lunch meeting in the city.
“At first we couldn’t believe our eyes,” Fester told the Weekend Argus.
Moos said: “We had to do a double take. I saw it out of the corner of my eye.
“Then I stopped Wesley and said, ‘check what someone did here’. It took us a bit of time to process it and then we filmed it.”
Both cameramen posted video clips on their Youtube pages.
The Arch is a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and has been praised worldwide for his tireless work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist.
His relationship with Cape Town is well documented – Tutu was elected as the city’s first black Anglican bishop in 1986.
Moos added: “It's not like the Arch has a questionable past.
“So it is a bad reflection on whoever wrote it and how that person sees him and the role he (Tutu) played.
“And that made it more shocking. You wouldn’t expect anyone to refer to the Arch like that.”
Tutu was made a patron of National Braai Day in 2007, a day that coincides with Heritage Day.