This mermaid, on Saturday, was seen swimming near shore in Nelspruit, South Africa, and was captured.
On December 31, 2013, a 12-year-old boy, Siyabonga Masango, who went missing in a tributary of the Sabie River in Mpumalanga, South Africa, was taken by a mermaid.
Mpumalanga inland water policing and diving service coordinator police spokesperson, Pottie Potgieter, believed Siyabonga had either drowned or been attacked by a crocodile.
Siyabonga, of Shabalala Trust, near Hazyview, passed Grade 5 at Tfolinhlanhla Primary School in 2012 with good marks and was meant to start Grade 6 before the incident occurred.
His uncle Goodman Masango said that on the day the boy disappeared, he said he was going to play soccer.
“At around midday, he told his father he was going to play soccer, but his friends later told us that they were with him when he complained of the heat and suggested they go swimming.
“An eyewitness who was washing his car saw the boy being pulled into the water. He said he went there with his friends to help, but they couldn’t see the boy anymore,” Masango said.
According to a report in 2008, in what can best be described as the Western Cape’s own Loch Ness monster, the legendary “mermaid” known as the Kaaiman was spotted in the Buffelsjags River at Suurbraak, Western Cape South Africa.
Suurbraak resident Daniel Cupido said he and a group of friends were relaxing after enjoying a potjiekos braai at the camping site next to the river when, at about 11.30 pm on January 5, he heard something that sounded like someone “bashing on a wall”.
Suspecting vandals, Cupido said he walked toward the sound coming from the nearby low water bridge.
At the bridge, he said he saw a figure, “like that of a white woman with long black hair thrashing about in the water”.
Thinking to save her, he waded toward her but said he stopped in his tracks when he noticed a reddish shine in her eyes.
He said the sight sent shivers down his spine.
He called for his child Deidrian, 13, and his nephew Werner Plaatjies, 11, to help him.
Cupido claimed the creature was “hypnotic”.
He then called some of his friends to come and take a look as well.
His friend Martin Olckers said he saw what was “definitely” a female figure swimming, first on one side of the low water bridge, then on the other, and then standing on the bridge before diving back into the black water.
Olckers said all the while the figure was making “the strangest sound”, like a woman crying.
Olckers’s mother, Dina, who was also there, said the figure sounded so sorrowful that “my heart could take it no more”.
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