NORTH WEST. – An environmental campaigner has urged boat users on the Hartbeespoort Dam to always wear life jackets and avoid areas with dense water hyacinth. He warns that boats can become trapped in the vegetation and that it can take rescue teams hours to reach them. He has also asked visitors to have the necessary safety equipment on board and to avoid unnecessary risks on the water. He has shared photos of the dam with the hyacinth.
The environmental campaigner says the vegetation impedes boat movement and is also affecting businesses and tourism around the dam. He says work is already underway to remove the water hyacinth and asks that the search for Jan Obakeng Mokonyane continue at the same time. According to the campaigner, search teams use drones daily to search for Mokonyane. He also wants to ask the family's permission for a possible BackaBuddy campaign to support the organisations helping with the search.
Nuusflits reported on five November that Sergeant Kelebogile Morake confirmed that Hartbeespoort Dam police are investigating Mokonyane's disappearance. He was the skipper of a boat that allegedly capsized on the dam on 25 October. All eight passengers were rescued.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
