Denis Aspden of Salt Rock writes:
Fortunately, the festive season is now a thing of the past and it is perhaps time for reflection.
Fireworks: Again, civil disobedience was evident in a minority of residents/holiday makers in the Ballito/ Salt Rock area.
Fireworks were already being set off on the evening of December 30 and outside of the municipal regulations regarding the permitted time-frame on the 31st. No respect for our wonderful wildlife and our poor animals.
A big hats off to Mossel Bay municipality for apparently banning fireworks and to Plettenberg Bay where the municipality, in place of fireworks, presented residents and visitors with a laser light display.
Nice idea for Diwali, festival of lights, not bangs.
Is it not about time that a proper, comprehensive and audited poll is taken in the Ballito/Salt Rock/Sheffield Beach to determine if the residents would like a total ban on fireworks?
This will not deter our visitors. Let the silent majority speak.
Well I doubt that the ANC would take this on as it may cost them a vote or two in the municipal elections. How about it DA, do you have the backbone?
Drinking and bad behaviour in public: Sorry, lost for words.
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