* A PREGNANT mother was attacked in her Linscott Road, Athlone Park home on Monday morning this week by a young man who was intent on sexual assault. The woman, in her mid-twenties, was tending her yearold baby daughter in her bedroom at about 9.30am on Monday when she looked up and saw the man in her room.
* THE R5-million Savanah Sands time flat block in Beach Road, Amanzimtoti is earmarked for expropriation by the province to make way for development of Totis second beach of Pipeline. And the owners of Savanah Sands say they now stand a chance to lose hundreds of thousands of rands because R1.3-million worth of time share in the block is still unsold and the news of the intended expropriation means they will not be able to sell these time share units.
* SWIMMERS who make use of the Inyoni Rocks beach pool and who are residents in Amanzimtoti will now pay R2 a year for the use of the pool. But if one Toti councillor had had his way, residents would have paid R1 each time they went down to swim. On Tuesday nights meeting of the council it was agreed to increase the entrance fee to the pool from 50c to R1.
* LIFE’s a bed of roses for two local florists, Chris Hale and Lynne Northcote, after their recent resounding success in an annual competition for professional florists. Chris and Lynn both from Kingsway florists in the Sanlam Centre.
* THE noise problem associated with the offloading of taxis in the Winifred close vicinity is being closely monitored by Kingsburgh traffic officials. An effort is being made to encourage taxis to collect and offload their passengers under the bridge on the R78, instead of coming into Kingsway and disturbing redidents in the early hours of the morning.
*ANOTHER step forward has been taken with regard to the progress development of ‘airspace’ above the Amanzimtoti station. A municipal spokes man said yesterday that although he had not seen it ‘in black and white’, he had heard the legislation had been passed on Monday.
