{"id":919119,"date":"2022-01-24T11:13:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T11:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/24\/family-identify-missing-kzn-pensioner-in-a-mortuary\/"},"modified":"2022-01-24T11:13:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T11:13:31","slug":"family-identify-missing-kzn-pensioner-in-a-mortuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/24\/family-identify-missing-kzn-pensioner-in-a-mortuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Family identify missing KZN pensioner in a mortuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1643022811_522_6b90a979-4336-52d5-8786-63694fb40fb1&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x69&#038;resize=960x540.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>Durban: Almost two weeks after a 64-year-old man was reported missing, his family have positively identified his body at the Pinetown mortuary. <\/p>\n<p>According to police, Richard Nkwanyana was last seen on January 2 at around 8.30am leaving his residence in Damat, Marianhill. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Police added that he had been wearing green trousers, a green shirt and black Dakota shoes. <\/p>\n<p>According to police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Nqobile Gwala, the victim was found dead in the Damat area. <\/p>\n<p>His family identified his body on January 14 at the Pinetown mortuary. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cA case of inquest has been opened at Pinetown SAPS for further investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, in a separate incident, police said a Pinetown wife had launched an appeal to help look for her husband who had left to work in Gauteng. <\/p>\n<p>However the husband called police to say he was alive and working in Gauteng. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durban: Almost two weeks after a 64-year-old man was reported missing, his family have positively identified his body at the Pinetown mortuary. According to police, Richard Nkwanyana was last seen on January 2 at around 8.30am leaving his residence in Damat, Marianhill. Police added that he had been wearing green trousers, a green shirt and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}