Drowning deaths
3 children drown in Pretoria dam
Rescue officials said that community members recoved the bodies of the three children, aged between six and ten.
Authorities say that the victim, from Vredenburg, had been at the beach with friends and is reported to have been swimming when he got into difficulty in the water.
A group of five friends went swimming near Maputo earlier this week but only one returned to shore.
The man’s body was found on Saturday morning in Swartvlei, a lake between Knysna and Sedgefield.
It’s believed a nine-year-old boy got into difficulty while swimming with friends in the Bridle Drift Dam.
When ER24 paramedics arrived at the scene on Tuesday morning they found lifeguards and the NSRI performing CPR on the teen.
Paramedics were deployed to Melkbaai beach on Wednesday afternoon where a man drowned after apparently being swept out to sea.
The circumstances surrounding his death are unclear and will be probed by police.
A 13-year-old boy, who had been on a school outing also on Saturday, disappeared under water while swimming in the Kleinmond Lagoon.
It’s understood he had been at a Christmas function with colleagues in the small fishing town when he drowned on Friday.
The NSRI says in 2016, 2,000 people died due to fatal drownings in the country while 20,000 non-fatal drownings were recorded in the same year.
Thulani Sibeko and a friend died last week while trying to retrieve house keys that had fallen into a hole filled with water at a construction site.
Twenty Chinese nationals and two crew members were rescued on Sunday.
However, four people did drown at unguarded beaches, including 34-year-old man who drowned at an unguarded Mnini Dam on Saturday.
Six drownings have been reported in the Western & Eastern Cape over the New Year’s long weekend.
The nine-year-old girl was found playing with other children in another part of the beach.
The warning comes after a nine-year-old boy drowned in a swimming pool at his home in Meyerton.
At least 15 drowning incidents have been reported in the Western Cape over the last two week.
Two boys drowned while playing on a bridge overlooking an estuary near Sandvlei mouth.