{"id":12327,"date":"2025-09-30T01:25:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-ambassador-to-france-dies-in-paris\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:25:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:25:44","slug":"sas-ambassador-to-france-dies-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-ambassador-to-france-dies-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"SA\u2019s Ambassador to France dies in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His body was discovered at the Hyatt Hotel, where reports indicate he fell from the 22nd floor.<\/p>\n<p>Mthethwa, a long-serving government official, held several key positions during his political career, including Minister of Police from May 2009 to May 2014.<\/p>\n<p>He was recently in the spotlight after KwaZulu-Natal Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi alleged that Mthethwa pressured former Inspector-General of Intelligence Faith Radebe to withdraw a criminal case against former Crime Intelligence boss Richard Mdluli.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of International Relations and Co-operation is expected to release further details regarding the circumstances of his death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12328,"template":"default||default||default||default||default||default||default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-12327","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"South Africa\u2019s (SA) Ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, has died in Paris.||South Africa\u2019s (SA) Ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, has died in Paris.||South Africa\u2019s (SA) Ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, has died in Paris.||South Africa\u2019s (SA) Ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, has died in Paris.||South Africa\u2019s (SA) Ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, has died in Paris.||South Africa\u2019s (SA) Ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, has died in Paris.||South Africa\u2019s (SA) Ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, has died in Paris.||South Africa\u2019s (SA) Ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, has died in Paris.","published_date":null,"news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17993,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12327\/revisions\/17993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}