{"id":283348,"date":"2018-11-11T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=283348"},"modified":"2018-11-11T08:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T06:35:00","slug":"sa-deputy-president-in-russia-for-3-weeks-on-sick-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/283348\/sa-deputy-president-in-russia-for-3-weeks-on-sick-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"SA deputy president in Russia for 3 weeks on \u201csick leave\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy president David Mabuza has been in Russia for three weeks receiving medical treatment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/sunday-times\/news\/2018-11-11-not-ill-but-david-mabuza-in-russia-on-sick-leave\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>the Sunday Times<\/strong><\/a> has reported.<\/p>\n<p>However, when asked about the sick leave and the medical treatment the deputy president was receiving, Mabuza\u2019s spokesperson said at no time did they state he was ill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt no point did our statement say the deputy president is ill, but rather [it] says he is on sick leave,\u201d said the spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny costs related to the care of current and former heads of state are in the ambit of the relevant organs of state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to Mabuza, said he was in Russia for treatment for issues arising from a poisoning incident three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>A separate source stated that Mabuza does not \u201ctrust South African doctors with his life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s office would not comment on the matter, stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday Times added that\u00a0Mabuza has not appeared in public since 20 October, and that this is the second time he has gone to Russia for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/283340\/another-political-party-pulled-into-vbs-looting-scandal-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another political party pulled into VBS looting scandal: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy president David Mabuza has been in Russia for three weeks receiving medical treatment the Sunday Times has reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":283354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-283348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283348","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283356,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283348\/revisions\/283356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}