With open water swimming now an established adventure sport in Nelson Mandela Bay, a fascinating document has surfaced describing how it all began with the Redhouse River Mile in the Swartkops Estuary.
Three ex-convicts paid it forward on Wednesday, urging more than a thousand youths not to swap their school uniforms for an orange one by following the wrong path.
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There was high drama along the Eastern Cape coastline this week in two separate incidents in which a man drowned, another went missing and three others were rescued.