{"id":2088,"date":"2026-01-04T06:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T06:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/2088\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T06:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T06:01:19","slug":"man-missing-hibberdene-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/2088\/","title":{"rendered":"Man missing &#8211; Hibberdene, KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glen Preston, NSRI Shelly Beach Station Commander, said; At 17h39 on Thursday, 1 January, NSRI Shelly Beach duty crew were activated following reports of a person reportedly missing in the surf zone at a beach between Hibberdene and Mfasazane.<\/p>\n<p>NSRI Shelly Beach crew, Med-Evac ambulance services, the South African Police Service, and Police Search and Rescue responded.<\/p>\n<p>An extensive search revealed no signs of a missing 33-year-old male, believed to be a local man, who had reportedly gone missing in the water at around 16h00.<\/p>\n<p>Police Search and Rescue will continue ongoing search efforts, and the police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts and care are with the family and friends of the missing man during this difficult time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glen Preston, NSRI Shelly Beach Station Commander, said; At 17h39 on Thursday, 1 January, NSRI Shelly Beach duty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[2102,2101,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-2088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-kzn","9":"tag-man-missing-hibberdene","10":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}