{"id":16365,"date":"2012-06-25T11:32:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T09:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=16365"},"modified":"2012-06-25T13:03:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T11:03:29","slug":"naspers-operations-head-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/16365\/naspers-operations-head-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Naspers operations head passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of MIH and <a title=\"Naspers\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2295-Naspers\">Naspers\u2019s<\/a> (NPN) internet worldwide operations\u201a Antonie Roux\u201a died on Sunday\u201a according to a report by News24.<\/p>\n<p>Roux died in a hospital in Heidelberg\u201a Germany\u201a after undergoing surgery. He was 54\u201a it was reported on the News24 website.<\/p>\n<p>Roux joined the Naspers group in 1979 and was a founding member of <a title=\"M-Net\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/380269-Mnet\">M-Net<\/a> in 1985. In 1997\u201a he was appointed CEO of <a title=\"MWeb SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1817-Mweb\">MWeb SA<\/a> and in 2002 was named CEO of Naspers\u2019s internet operations. From April 2011\u201a Roux was CEO of the MIH group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/15765\/naspers-anticipates-earnings-rise\/\"><strong>Naspers anticipates earnings rise<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Naspers feels Facebook heat\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/13786\/naspers-feels-facebook-heat\/\"><strong>Naspers feels Facebook heat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/7862\/naspers-up-3-to-record-high\/\"><strong>Naspers up 3% to record high<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/7814\/naspers-cape-town-deal-to-be-probed\/\"><strong>Naspers-Cape Town deal to be probed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of MIH and Naspers\u2019s (NPN) internet worldwide operations\u201a Antonie Roux\u201a died on Sunday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,3295,3296,107,3297],"class_list":["post-16365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-antonie-roux","tag-death","tag-naspers","tag-rip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16365","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16365"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16386,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16365\/revisions\/16386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}