CAPE TOWN - Lifeguards have warned beachgoers against risky behaviour that could put them in life-threatening situations.
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Lifesaving SA has deployed over four-thousand volunteers on a rotational basis together with over three-thousand municipal professional lifeguards help to keep people safe while visiting bathing zones countrywide.
A number of rescues have already been carried out over the holiday period.
eNCA reporter, Kevin Brandt, compiled this report.