Thumbs down for ambulance service
The offer of an ambulance service for Toti has been given the thumbs down by council.
At Tuesday night’s last council meeting in the old borough offices, a proposal by the SA First Aid League for a full ambulance service for Toti, was turned down. It was decided that a letter be written to the ministry of health to find out what the government intended doing about ambulance services.
Elephants on the N2
Motorists driving past Toti on the N2 this week may have thought a slice of wildest Africa had come to the banks of the Toti River.
Seeing four African elephants and an Asian elephant playing in the tall reeds along the river bank may have left motorists thinking their eyes had deceived them. But that’s no quite the case. The circus is in town, and Dorothy, Wankie, Charlie, Tembi and Bandula the elephants, are here to thrill local audiences with their antics.
Waste stinks at Isipingo
An Isipingo resident is up in arms about the stench from waste allegedly being dumped near the Isipingo Secondary School by a waste disposal company.
Mr GS Govender told the SUN that the smell, which he said “is difficult to describe”, is worst at night and at the weekend. He said the matter has been reported to the Isipingo Health Department.
At your own risk
If and when the sardines arrive in Toti, the shark nets will be lifted and bathing will be banned.
Anyone who wishes to surf, dive or swim, enters the sea at his or her own risk.
Croc sit-in
From Thursday, 30 June, Paul Whiley, will sit under-water with eight Nile crocodiles for about nine days in an attempt to break the present Guinness Book of Records feat.
The tank in which he will sit has been specially built for public viewing. This is the first time ever that a man has attempted to live with crocodiles under-water.
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