{"id":80993,"date":"2018-05-08T08:17:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T06:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=80993"},"modified":"2018-05-23T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T10:45:10","slug":"durban-man-missing-middelburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/05\/08\/durban-man-missing-middelburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Durban man goes missing in Middelburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damian Dolan was last seen in Middelburg on Thursday 3 May. He recently traveled from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.durban.gov.za\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Durban <\/a>to Middelburg to check into a rehabilitation centre.<\/p>\n<p>About three weeks ago, Damian left the rehab centre, and lived with friends also residing in Middelburg.<\/p>\n<p>It was initially said that he disappeared last week from their home, with nothing but the clothes on his back. He was\u00a0last seen at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelground.com\/attractions\/middelburg-dam\" target=\"_blank\">Middelburg Dam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80995\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80995\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80995\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2018\/05\/Damien2-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2018\/05\/Damien2-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2018\/05\/Damien2-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damian Dolan resides in Durban but traveled to Middelburg recently.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His friends\u00a0are struggling to file a missing persons report at the Middelburg Police.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saps.gov.za\/services\/report_missing_person.php\" target=\"_blank\">Read: How to report a missing person (SAPS website)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Damian&#8217;s sister, Carmen Bartman, says that they are worried that he is lying in a ditch somewhere.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"quote-solid\"><p>&#8220;He has taken nothing with him when he disappeared. Not his cellphone, not his wallet, nothing. He left with the clothes on his back.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She says that her brother has never done anything like this before. The family can now only pray that he will be found safe.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80996\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80996\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2018\/05\/Damian-Dolan-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2018\/05\/Damian-Dolan-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2018\/05\/Damian-Dolan-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damian&#8217;s family is pleading for locals to be on the lookout for him.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Damian was last seen wearing shorts, a T-shirts and flip-flops.<\/li>\n<li>He is 36 years old, 1.7 metres tall and weighs 62 kg.<\/li>\n<li>He has brown hair with lots of grey in it and brown-green eyes.<\/li>\n<li>Damian has a scar on his lower lip and his name tattooed on his right upper arm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/afp\/389186\/cameroon-athletes-go-missing-from-commonwealth-games\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read: Cameroon athletes goes missing from Commonwealth Games<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If anyone has seen Damian, they can get in contact with sgt. Thabitha Leshilo on 079 891 4840.<\/p>\n<h4>Other News:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/80985\/breaking-news-video-body-discovered-meyer-bridge\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Breaking News: (Video) Body discovered under Meyer Street Bridge<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/80828\/video-rhino-calf-alone-bush-two-days-poachers-kill-mother\/\" target=\"_blank\">VIDEO: Rhino calf alone in wild for days after poachers kill mother<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/80738\/gupta-swear-word-middelburg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gupta is a swear word in Middelburg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/80724\/video-reward-stolen-bicycles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video \u2013 Reward for stolen bicycles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/80641\/photos-two-assaulted-berg-en-dal\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Photos \u2013 Two assaulted at Berg-En-Dal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/afp\/399393\/dj-avicii-killed-himself-with-glass-report\" target=\"_blank\">Avicii killed himself with glass: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Durban family is pleading with local residents to help them search for their loved one.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":80997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[11412,11413,11414,2982,21966,5485,1450,1732,11415],"class_list":["post-80993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-damian","tag-dolan","tag-drug-addict","tag-durban","tag-middelburg","tag-middelburg-dam","tag-missing","tag-oorwinnaars","tag-rehab"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["damian","dolan","drug addict","durban","middelburg","Middelburg dam","missing","Oorwinnaars","rehab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}