NATIONAL NEWS - Mike Cronje went for an afternoon walk on Tuesday afternoon at the Schoemansville Resort when he spotted the strange visitor.
“I first couldn’t believe my eyes and ran back to my house to fetch my camera."
The hippo was first spotted by farm workers on the farm of Koos and Annelien van Splunter on Friday.
“The workers first saw the spoor, and then found the hippo in our dam. However, when the workers started working with machinery, he disappeared under water and when I got to the dam, he was nowhere to be seen. He was there until Monday morning, but kept himself scarce and was mostly under water,” Annelien told Kormorant.
According to Annelien, the hippo came from the direction of nearby Hekpoort, and has been spotted on several farms. No one knows where he came from.
