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Police divers search for missing fisherman Magda Maritz magda@rekordpaper.co.za Police divers searched the freezing water of Spaarwater Dam outside Duduza tirelessly for two days, hoping to recover the body of a local fisherman, believed to have drowned on the evening of June 30. The search for Mangaliso Mfele began in the afternoon on July 5, after some of his personal belongings were discovered on the banks of the dam. According to his friend, he was reported missing to the
Duduza Police Station over the weekend, after he failed to return home the previous night. He allegedly went to check on his fishing nets in a small canoe around 19:00 on Friday evening, but was never seen again. Police divers conducted free dive searches and a sweeping line search in the vicinity of where the fishing nets were found, but temporarily called off the search around 18:00 on July 5, due to bad light and
weather conditions. They returned to comb the waters the following day and around midday they discovered Mfele’s small canoe under the murky water.
At the time of going to print, police spokesperson Sgt Harry Manaka conf irmed that despite an extensive search, the man is yet to be found.
Police divers searched the Spaarwater Dam for two days, hoping to recover the body of a local fisherman that was reported missing after failing to check his fishing nets on the evening of June 30.