{"id":43696,"date":"2026-02-04T19:13:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/2-8-metre-black-mamba-captured-osindisweni-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:13:20","slug":"2-8-metre-black-mamba-captured-osindisweni-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/2-8-metre-black-mamba-captured-osindisweni-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"2.8 Metre Black Mamba Captured: Osindisweni \u2013 KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large 2.8-metre Black Mamba was safely captured in the Ogujini in Osindisweni &#8211; KZN after it was discovered inside a garage used for storage yesterday (Tuesday). <\/p>\n<p>The highly venomous reptile was spotted coiled between unused wooden doors inside the garage, prompting a request for urgent assistance. Nkosinathi Ndaba, an Area Manager at Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA), responded to the call and successfully captured the snake without incident.<\/p>\n<p>During the operation, a second, smaller Black Mamba was also seen on the same premises. However, it managed to escape into a hole and could not be located despite a thorough search of the surrounding area&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76354&#038;page=2-8-metre-black-mamba-captured-osindisweni-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large 2.8-metre Black Mamba was safely captured in the Ogujini in Osindisweni &#8211; KZN after it was discovered inside a garage used for storage yesterday (Tuesday). The highly venomous reptile was spotted coiled between unused wooden doors inside the garage, prompting a request for urgent assistance. Nkosinathi Ndaba, an Area Manager at Reaction Unit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43697,"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\/624523085_1339004504919972_7023288599779175082_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-43696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/624523085_1339004504919972_7023288599779175082_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43696","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=43696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}