A slow death

Next to Beach Bums, Westbrook Beach, north cost, KZN: Around 1940, the owners, a wealthy Indian couple, departed South Africa to return to India. The couple left the house to their children who’d never set foot on the property, and the place died a slow death – pieces removed bit by bit by the squatters who, whom to this day, still inhabit the hills across the road. The property is now in the process of being reclaimed as part of the beach; however, legalities prevail.

Back then, in its original grand state:

Now, in its graffitied shell:

No prizes for guessing the most popular word splashed over the many walls…