By Seton Thompson
Photo : Supplied
2013-01-09 23:00
In a holiday season dominated by bad news and poor service delivery in many respects, the day was saved by the last-minute intervention of local citizen James Tucker and his company T&T Marine, which worked around the clock dredging out the sand in the five beach pools.
A variety of other locals jumped on the subsequent band wagon but the Umdoni council community services department, which sealed the deal with T&T, and its chairman Councillor Edwyn Baptie and beach manager Melvin Patchai, deserve mention.
Mtwalume’s ratepayer association leader André van Rooyen hailed the availability of the pool in that town as a “very welcome surprise”.
Baptie arranged for the access gate to be replaced at Pennington, but the absence of a special nut hindered the use of that facility, which should be resolved soon.