Now we all know the comments sections on websites are the breeding ground for intelligent, rational and well-constructed arguments, right? Yeah, not so much.

In yet another example of how easy it is to hide behind the keyboard, a picture of a crowded Durban beach, posted on Afrikaans website VreeslookAfrikaans.com, has brought out the racists in their droves. The picture itself was posted with the hashtag #krydiedoom (get the Doom), referring of course to the insecticide.

Here are a few of the comments:

Ek wens ek was ‘n haai! [I wish I were a shark].”

Waar is ‘n tsunami as jy hom nodig het? [Where is a tsunami when you need it?]…. Lol”

Yes, it seems there are still a large number of racists out there, and they now know how to use the interweb. The post on Facebook has since been removed.

According to the South African Race Relations spokeswoman Mienke Steytler, the segregation on our beaches is a legacy of apartheid’s spatial planning:

“When cities were developed back in the day when all these [apartheid] laws were in place, they were developed specifically to separate people,” she said.

We are now sitting with the consequences.

Read the full story on TimesLive.