{"id":42445,"date":"2025-12-28T08:15:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/successful-rescue-of-a-sergeant-attached-to-vioolsdrift-border-policing-who-went-missing-in-the-mountains-near-vioolsdrift-in-the-northern-cape\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T08:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:15:57","slug":"successful-rescue-of-a-sergeant-attached-to-vioolsdrift-border-policing-who-went-missing-in-the-mountains-near-vioolsdrift-in-the-northern-cape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/successful-rescue-of-a-sergeant-attached-to-vioolsdrift-border-policing-who-went-missing-in-the-mountains-near-vioolsdrift-in-the-northern-cape\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful rescue of a sergeant attached to Vioolsdrift Border Policing, who went missing in the mountains near Vioolsdrift in the Northern Cape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sergeant attached to Vioolsdrift Border Policing, who went #missing in the mountains near Vioolsdrift in the Northern Cape on Friday, 26 December 2025, has been successfully rescued and was found unharmed earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>The Sergeant, who was hiking in the mountainous area together with two other individuals, went missing while returning from the hike. The other members of the group managed to return home safely.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported to the police at approximately 22:00, after which a search operation was immediately initiated.<\/p>\n<p>However, due to darkness and the hazardous terrain, the search was suspended late last night and resumed early this morning once conditions were deemed safe.<\/p>\n<p>During the night, the missing member managed to make telephonic contact with his wife, informing her that he was safe and had decided to remain in the mountains overnight to avoid further disorientation or injury.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday,  27 December 2025 at approximately 06:00, a coordinated search&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75908&#038;page=successful-rescue-of-a-sergeant-attached-to-vioolsdrift-border-policing-who-went-missing-in-the-mountains-near-vioolsdrift-in-the-northern-cape\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sergeant attached to Vioolsdrift Border Policing, who went #missing in the mountains near Vioolsdrift in the Northern Cape on Friday, 26 December 2025, has been successfully rescued and was found unharmed earlier today. The Sergeant, who was hiking in the mountainous area together with two other individuals, went missing while returning from the hike. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/605091223_1295419089276395_2041426434899055984_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[2371],"class_list":["post-42445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-northern-cape"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/605091223_1295419089276395_2041426434899055984_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}