Narrow escape for fishermen as boat capsizes off Swartkops mouth

Quick-thinking Gqeberha beachgoers averted a potential tragedy after a motorboat flipped near the Swartkops Estuary mouth and one of two fishermen was washed out to sea.

Pretoria visitor Marnitz Jordaan, 36, said he and his friend Ulrich Webber had launched out the mouth early Friday and headed north up the coastline towards Bluewater Bay Beach...

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