It was life or loss of life for a Centurion snake catcher when she was pressured to leap into her personal automobile and race to the hospital to avoid wasting her personal life after being bitten by a extremely venomous black mamba in Diepsloot.
Within two minutes after arriving on the Netcare Unitas Hospital in Die Hoewes, Centurion, Hermien Grobler collapsed and stopped respiratory.
It was a race towards time, however medical doctors managed to revive her.
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