{"id":11589,"date":"2012-05-05T08:46:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T06:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=11589"},"modified":"2012-05-07T12:04:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T10:04:42","slug":"roy-padayachie-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/11589\/roy-padayachie-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Padayachie has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African cabinet minister <a title=\"Roy Padayachie\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2209-Roy-Padayachie\">Roy Padayachie<\/a> who has died in Ethiopia was attending a meeting of the African Peer Review Mechanism in Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<p>Padayachie, 62, died on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Government spokesman <a title=\"Jimmy Manyi\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2545-Jimmy-Manyi\">Jimmy Manyi<\/a> said the minister died of natural causes.<\/p>\n<p>The two-day meeting Padayachie was attending is a high level discussion between ministers and top government officials who report directly to their respective heads of state.<\/p>\n<p>Padayachie was part of the APR focal point select committee.<\/p>\n<p>On the agenda was a discussion on integrating the mechanism into the African Union.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Padayachie died with his boots on: Deputy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>South African cabinet minister Roy Padayachie was a committed patriot who died in the service of his country, the deputy minister of public service and administration said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have lost a comrade,&#8221; deputy minister Ayanda Dlodlo said.<\/p>\n<p>Padayachie, the minister of public service and administration, was found dead in his hotel room in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia by a South African colleague. He was attending a meeting of the African Peer Review Mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>Dlodlo said his wife, Sally, had spoken to him on the telephone on Friday evening and he promised to call her back in twenty minutes. The call never came.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In that conversation he had been so excited about the meeting and the input South Africa was making,&#8221; Dlodlo said. He told her the meeting had been extremely fruitful.<\/p>\n<p>Padayachie had joined the public service and administration ministry in October last year. He was minister of communication and before that deputy minister of public service and administration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He came back with a bang,&#8221; Dlodlo said, &#8220;He understood the department and was very hands on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Roy died without scandal, a committed patriot and distinguished member of the African National Congress,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The saddest thing is to die out of the country but he went in the line of duty with his boots on.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African cabinet minister Roy Padayachie who has died in Ethiopia was attending a meeting of the African Peer Review Mechanism in Addis Ababa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26,2654],"class_list":["post-11589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline","tag-roy-padayachie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11589"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11592,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11589\/revisions\/11592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}