Unlike Gotham City, the South Coast is not exactly teaming with super heroes, but there is at least one who deserves special mention:
Margate Ratepayers’ and Residents’Association chairman Stephen Herbst is certainly setting a fine example to all of us when it comes to making sure that our ‘sheriffs’ enforce the new public nuisance by-laws which were ‘Heralded’ in while New Year fireworks were still terrorising pets.
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(If you missed the Herald last week, go to our website – www.southcoastherald – and search for ‘Ray Nkonyeni Municipality adopts strict new by-laws’.)
One might ask: Why… were… we… waaaaaiting? But let’s not quibble over spilled festive season beer and broken glass.
Stevo (as his friends call him) seems to be very much a Lone Ranger at this stage, although he doesn’t wear a mask like the Hollywood cowboy… or Zorro… or even a red cape and underpants on the outside of a spandex costume, like Superman.
Brash and brave, he prowls our beachfront in his trusty twincab, keeping a beady eye open for anyone transgressing these by-laws. Then he calls in the ‘posse’, quotes the new by-laws and insists they enforce them.
Anyone who knows Stevo will agree that he’s not so easy to fob off with lame excuses, so he really gets the guys-in-blue hopping.
At least one party bus parked at St Michael’s beach recently lost its stock of liquor and revellers were left grumbling into their soft drink cans.
Luckily, like Superman, Stevo does have a Lois Lane in the form of the Herald’s super journo Shona Aylward, who is also not shy to put-fingers-to-keyboard and expose the rot.
However, while the Herald can be seen as the Daily Planet, like Batman, Stevo needs a Robin… like the Lone Ranger, Stevo needs a Tonto.
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It is up to all of us to bring pressure to bear on our law enforcement agencies to do their duty without fear or favour. For starters, drinking alcohol in a public place that is not designated for that purpose is a criminal offence… full stop!
That applies to all of us, whether it is a glass of wine while watching the whales frolicking… or a beer from a cooler box while watching the kids get dumped in the shore break… or a whisky from a taxi in a car park listening to ‘doef-doef’ music… or ‘Klippies’ from the boot of the car listening to Steve Hofmeyr.
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