{"id":240080,"date":"2026-08-01T07:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-dna-confirms-identity-of-man-whose-skeletal-remains-were-found-at-otjomuise\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T07:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:37:13","slug":"namibia-dna-confirms-identity-of-man-whose-skeletal-remains-were-found-at-otjomuise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-dna-confirms-identity-of-man-whose-skeletal-remains-were-found-at-otjomuise\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: DNA Confirms Identity of Man Whose Skeletal Remains Were Found At Otjomuise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em>Human skeletal remains discovered along the Matshitshi gravel road at Otjomuise have been identified as those of Anton Topnaar (31), who was reported missing in Windhoek in October last year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">National police spokesperson deputy commissioner Kauna Shikwambi on Thursday confirmed that DNA analysis had established the identity of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">&#8220;This is to inform you that the human remains have been positively identified as those of Anton Topnaar (31), who was reported missing in Windhoek on 20&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607310408.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human skeletal remains discovered along the Matshitshi gravel road at Otjomuise have been identified as those of Anton Topnaar (31), who was reported missing in Windhoek in October last year. National police spokesperson deputy commissioner Kauna Shikwambi on Thursday confirmed that DNA analysis had established the identity of the deceased. &#8220;This is to inform you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6824,13947,10028,6867,4706,724,257,10822,7602,55017,254],"class_list":["post-240080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-confirms","tag-dna","tag-identity","tag-man","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-otjomuise","tag-remains","tag-skeletal","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240080","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=240080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}