{"id":47424,"date":"2026-06-19T00:53:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T22:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/body-of-drowning-victim-recovered-umdloti-beach-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T00:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T22:53:25","slug":"body-of-drowning-victim-recovered-umdloti-beach-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/body-of-drowning-victim-recovered-umdloti-beach-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of Drowning Victim Recovered: Umdloti Beach &#8211; KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The body of 22-year-old Bandile Ntaka was recovered this evening (Thursday).<\/p>\n<p>Ntaka drowned on Monday afternoon (15\/06\/2026)  while swimming at Umdloti Beach in KwaZulu-Natal. Members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) Search &amp; Rescue Unit and Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) conducted an extensive search for the missing man following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>At the request of the family, the RUSA Robinson R44 Helicopter was deployed for three (3) consecutive days in an effort to locate and recover his body.<\/p>\n<p>A group of fishermen spotted the body near the shoreline this evening and alerted a Security Officer. The officer, together with his colleagues, entered the water and recovered the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>The family has been informed&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77734&#038;page=body-of-drowning-victim-recovered-umdloti-beach-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body of 22-year-old Bandile Ntaka was recovered this evening (Thursday). Ntaka drowned on Monday afternoon (15\/06\/2026) while swimming at Umdloti Beach in KwaZulu-Natal. Members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) Search &amp; Rescue Unit and Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) conducted an extensive search for the missing man following the incident. At the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47425,"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\/726412073_861246963707256_9222286627555026158_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-47424","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\/726412073_861246963707256_9222286627555026158_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47424","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=47424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}