By News from Elsewhere...
...as found by BBC Monitoring
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29 minutes ago
Naturists have started using South Africa's first official nudist beach, despite ongoing protests against it.
Dozens
of people turned up to use the 250m (820ft) stretch of beach, which
lies within the eastern Mpenjati Nature Reserve, even though it hasn't
officially opened yet,
the Times Live website reports.
While the beach was approved in 2014, its formal unveiling has been
delayed because of ongoing objections, the council says. Officials had
to intervene on the naturists' behalf over the Easter weekend, after the
Concerned Citizens Group - which opposes the beach - called the police.
The group argues that local bylaws allowing it haven't yet passed, but
the council says it's merely a technicality.
"We are here
legally," Serge Pavlovic, chairman of the South African National
Naturist Association, tells the website. "There is a lot of emotion
around this - people don't understand that naturists want to be one with
nature. There is nothing sexual about this." Mr Pavlovic told another
reporter that his group was "very proud" to have created a code of
conduct for the beach, which outlines unacceptable behaviour. Among the
beachgoers enjoying the Easter sunshine was a Johannesburg pastor,
although she declined to be named, saying: "I have to keep this a secret
- my church will not understand."
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