{"id":221014,"date":"2026-01-19T11:37:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/south-africa-ekurhuleni-councillor-missing-in-mozambique-amid-catastrophic-flooding-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:37:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:37:54","slug":"south-africa-ekurhuleni-councillor-missing-in-mozambique-amid-catastrophic-flooding-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/south-africa-ekurhuleni-councillor-missing-in-mozambique-amid-catastrophic-flooding-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Ekurhuleni Councillor Missing in Mozambique Amid Catastrophic Flooding Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>A councillor from Ekurhuleni is missing in Mozambique after floods swept away his vehicle, prompting a rescue mission amid catastrophic flooding affecting thousands.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The City of Ekurhuleni&#8217;s mayoral committee member for roads and transport management, Andile Mngwevu, is missing after the vehicle he was travelling in was swept away by floodwaters in Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">In a press release on Sunday, 18 January, the municipality confirmed that Mngwevu had travelled to Chokw\u00e9 in Mozambique, which has been&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601190025.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A councillor from Ekurhuleni is missing in Mozambique after floods swept away his vehicle, prompting a rescue mission amid catastrophic flooding affecting thousands. The City of Ekurhuleni&#8217;s mayoral committee member for roads and transport management, Andile Mngwevu, is missing after the vehicle he was travelling in was swept away by floodwaters in Mozambique. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":221015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00621903:5e4e14d7a4f9d3dc69fd9d57990999cb:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,29398,17818,3723,38110,3910,6947,4704,682,257,5069,254],"class_list":["post-221014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-catastrophic","tag-councillor","tag-crisis","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-flooding","tag-missing","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00621903:5e4e14d7a4f9d3dc69fd9d57990999cb:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}