Fake Beach Rats Stealing Cape Town’s Summer? Lifeguards Snap.

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HERO LIFEGUARD’S OFF-DUTY NIGHTMARE EXPOSES CAPE TOWN’S DROWNING CRISIS. HE WAS ON VACATION. THEN HE HEARD THE SCREAMS.

Senior lifeguard Saadiq Parker was trying to relax with his girlfriend at Miller’s Point Beach. His instincts screamed danger. “Never let your back face the water,” he told her. SECONDS LATER, chaos erupted.

Two children had fallen from a flimsy inflatable raft. Two adults who tried to help were also drowning. Parker SPRANG INTO ACTION, grabbing a pink rescue buoy. “It became a situation of not one person, not two persons, but FOUR,” Parker told Daily Maverick. He fought the waves to save them all.

The eight-year-old girl was FOAMING AT THE MOUTH on the sand. Parker shouted for an ambulance and guided strangers through CPR, reviving her after six agonizing cycles. This shocking rescue, captured in a supplied photo of Parker, wasn’t an isolated event. IT WAS PART OF A PATTERN.

That same day, the NSRI rescued a man whose surf-ski drifted away near Fish Hoek. Just one day earlier, two men were blown out to sea on a “supermarket blow-up inflatable” at the SAME SPOT. The city admits to 19 non-fatal and 4 fatal drownings in just weeks. Lifeguards are now living on the beach, working before and after their shifts as chaos spikes.

Why is this happening? Officials give calm statements about “busy seasons” and “golden rules.” But the brutal truth is on display: cheap inflatables, overcrowded shores, and winds that turn fun into tragedy in a heartbeat. Lifeguards are becoming the last line of defense for a system stretched to breaking point.

They are fighting the tide while the public is left in the dark.



Edited for Kayitsi.com

Author: Kayitsi.com

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