{"id":47997,"date":"2026-07-25T04:15:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/body-of-a-missing-child-recovered-from-a-river-at-olievenhoutbosch\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T04:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:15:33","slug":"body-of-a-missing-child-recovered-from-a-river-at-olievenhoutbosch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/body-of-a-missing-child-recovered-from-a-river-at-olievenhoutbosch\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of a missing child recovered from a river at Olievenhoutbosch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, at approximately 18:33, CERT South Africa received a distress message from a member of the Olievenhoutbosch community reporting that a young boy had gone missing in a river after reportedly playing in the water earlier in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the remote and rural location, emergency services were notified and resources were dispatched to the area.<\/p>\n<p>The body of the missing child has sadly been recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Our heartfelt condolences go out to the child&rsquo;s family, friends, and loved ones during this incredibly difficult time. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by this tragic loss.<\/p>\n<p>Our sincere appreciation to all emergency services, search and rescue teams, security personnel, and members of the community who assisted during the search operation.<\/p>\n<p>CERT-SA crews, Gauteng Emergency Medical Services Rescue Unit, the South African Police Service Diving Unit, SAPS Search and Rescue, and other emergency response teams, actively searching for the missing&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78071&#038;page=body-of-a-missing-child-recovered-from-a-river-at-olievenhoutbosch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, at approximately 18:33, CERT South Africa received a distress message from a member of the Olievenhoutbosch community reporting that a young boy had gone missing in a river after reportedly playing in the water earlier in the afternoon. Due to the remote and rural location, emergency services were notified and resources were dispatched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[2149],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-47997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-accidents","tag-gauteng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47997","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=47997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}