Tioxide team is tops
Tioxide Southern Africa has been awarded the shield for the best employee safety performance in the international Tioxide group.
The company has also retained its NOSA five star rating. This news follows other recent news from Tioxide about the sanction of a R16m expansion programme.
“We regard our people as our most important asset and are very serious about putting safety first,” said MD David Callow.
Bus testing scrutinised
Despite being passed as roadworthy by Toti traffic officials, a bus, carrying school children was pulled off the road twice within two weeks by Port Shepstone authorities.
The bus was first stopped when it was belching smoke from the rear. The 93 children had to sit on a grass verge outside a service station until a replacement bus fetched them. The faults listed in the initial pull-over included serious play in the steering, defective suspension and faulty brakes.
Toti man killed by gunmen
A resident of a local hotel was shot and his girlfriend abducted on Saturday morning in Isipingo Beach.
Eddie Varley, 33, and his girlfriend were parked at the pay beach when they were approached by four men. The men dragged Varley out of his minibus and assaulted him. They were about to drive away when Varley tried to stop them leaving with his girlfriend still in the vehicle.
School runs on a shoe-string
For the love of children, Lorraine van Graan and her family have dedicated their lives to the education of the younger generation.
Almost six years ago in 1990, van Graan started a pre-primary school consisting of six underprivileged children in her garage. Today on different premises, 105 children attend the school. Van Graan said school funds come from her pension, 20 per cent from her husband’s salary and from a small juice business in which the whole family is involved.
Seal puts people in a tizz
A sub-antarctic fur seal gave would-be rescuers a run for their money when attempts to capture it on Friday afternoon were met with sharp teeth and the seal sliding into the sea.
The seal was spotted by Janice Lee last Friday. She contacted the Oceano-graphic Research Institute. A team was sent, which tried unsuccessfully to capture it. The seal went into the water and was not expected to return but on Saturday morning it was back. ORI was contacted again.
