#50YearsAgo First service station in town
Who would have thought that we would still be talking about vervet monkeys 50 years later? Share your fondest memories with us.
KINGSWAY Service Station, now Total Kingsway Service Station, was the first service station in Toti, and was owned by Ronald Butler.
Mr Butler also ran the first cartage business in Toti. All building materials – sand, stone bricks and wood – came by train and had to be carted away from the
station.
The local plumber at the time also ran a cartage business and would often be seen carting goods around the streets in a wheelbarrow
First woman alderman
MRS Thora Cole was the first woman councillor for Amanzimtoti to be made Alderman in 1994. Toti was amalgamated into the South Local Council in 1995.
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Winklespruit residents complain
June 11, 1971
‘MONKEY MENACE’
RESIDENTS of Winklespruit are once again complaining about the danger of monkeys in the Byways-Alexander Road area.
“They are becoming very menacing and it’s only a matter of time before a child or adult is savaged,” said Mr. A.R. Flower of 11 Byways.
Residents complained about six months ago after a large male monkey, leader of the troop, chased a teenage girl up the driveway of her home.
Since then the monkeys are said to have multiplied out of all proportion and show no fear of people – particularly women and children.
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