Rescue

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  • warning: Parameter 1 to ams_field() expected to be a reference, value given in /usr/www/users/amsgvy/includes/theme.inc on line 170.
  • warning: Parameter 1 to ams_field() expected to be a reference, value given in /usr/www/users/amsgvy/includes/theme.inc on line 170.

Boy airlifted after abseiling injury

A teenager had to be airlifted from the Cederberg Mountains after he fell while abseiling, hitting his right leg against a rock face and possibly fracturing it.

The 16-year-old boy was injured yesterday while on a school camp. Andre Oliphant, an Air Mercy Service senior hoist operator and Cape Town base manager, said every year a group of Grade 10 and Grade 12 boys were taken to the Cederberg to abseil, learn survival skills and do team-building exercises.



Outa Lappies sterf toe lapkleed vlam vat

 

Outa Lappies sterf toe Iapkleed vlam vat een van die bekendste kunstenaars en persoonlikhede van die Klein-Karoo, Mnr. Jan Schoeman (87) is gisteroggend dood. Schoeman, beter bekend as Outa Lappies, het aan brandwonde beswyk nadat sy kenmerkende en kleurryke laslappiejas aan die brand geraak het.



Vrou breek been op wandelpad

George 'n Vrou van Pretoria het gister op Plettenbergbaai 'n operasie ondergaan nadat sy Woensdag haar regterbeen op die gewilde Otterwandelpad naby Stormsriviermond gebreek het.