TIGERS NEXT DOOR!
‘YOUR TIGER IS GOING TO JUMP OVER THE WALL’
WHEN she saw the big cat staring at her over her neighbour’s fence, she thought she must bedreaming.
Impala Park is a middle-class area in Boksburg, Gauteng, filled with tree-lined streets and suburban homes. It’s the last place you’d expect to find tigers – yet this is exactly what Dari Viljoen* found herself looking at.
Dari, who runs a crèche next door, couldn’t believe her eyes. “I saw the head move and realised I was looking at the real thing,” she says.
She immediately approached the neighbour, Anneline Kruger, to enquire about the animals. “I said to her, ‘I’ve got a
