Zikalala slams Sodwana Bay guesthouse's racial policy
The KZN Tourism MEC is outraged that a Sodwana Bay guesthouse does not accommodate black people nor government officials as a policy.
The owner of the Sodwana Bay Guest House Andre Slate has confirmed the policy with the Star newspaper, saying segregation is God's will.
MEC Sihle Zikala says he has instructed his officials to investigate, vowing to get to the bottom of the debacle.
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''We defeated racism in 1994. When our people voted for a democratic government they were voting because they were rejecting [the]apartheid system which embraced racism. We are now in a democratic dispensation where all people need to be respected.
''These statements that they don't accommodate black people and they don't accommodate government means that these people think that they don't belong to South Africa,'' he said.
Management at the Sodwana Bay Lodge says they've received several calls, messages querying the policy after it trended on social media.
The Sodwana Bay Lodge says it is in no way associated with the guesthouse.