Arts and Culture Minister, Nathi Mthethwa says political parties have discussed a proposal to move statues representing South Africa’s colonial and apartheid years to historical theme parks.
He told a media briefing in Pretoria on Wednesday that the proposal for theme parks was mooted at a consultative meeting last Friday.
Mthethwa said other proposals included urgently establishing a task team to speed up the process of identifying contentious statues and relocating them.
The minister said the process would mark a turning point in how the country dealt with issues of remembrance and should be concluded within five years, at most.
Dozens of statues countrywide have been defaced in the past three weeks, after the Economic Freedom Fighters called on supporters to topple those representing white minority rule.
