Yaseerah Nelson, a woman belonging to Klip Neighbourhood Watch, immediately sprang into action after spotting a young schoolboy drowning in a severely flooded road in Parkwood, reports Cape town Etc .
The young boy, believed to be between the ages of seven and eight, from Parkwood Primary School, was walking home in the afternoon when he found himself struggling in what Nelson described as knee-high flood water .
According to Nelson, it appeared as if the boy was swimming when she and her colleagues spotted him until she realised that he was drowning, News24 reported.
He was in the water for a while, and then he went up, down again, and came up. When his back flipped, I noticed that he was not swimming. He was about to drown, she told the publication.
Entering the knee-high water, Nelson said she also struggled to make her way to the boy, who was face down when she managed to reach him.