{"id":34524,"date":"2013-03-28T10:39:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T08:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=34524"},"modified":"2013-03-28T10:40:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T08:40:58","slug":"digicore-director-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/34524\/digicore-director-murdered\/","title":{"rendered":"DigiCore director murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Non-executive director for JSE-listed DigiCore Holdings, Nlhanhla Gasa has been found dead, according to Eyewitness News.<\/p>\n<p>According to EWN, the Durban businessman&#8217;s body was found floating in the Tugela River.<\/p>\n<p>Gasa is said to have ties to President Jacob Zuma.<\/p>\n<p>KwaZulu-Natal police told the media outlet that they believe Gasa was attacked in his home in Umhlanga, stabbed multiple times and later dumped in the river.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34527\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/EWN-reporter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34527\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34527\" alt=\"EWN reporter\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/EWN-reporter.png\" width=\"495\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/EWN-reporter.png 495w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/EWN-reporter-300x123.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EWN reporter<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gasa was a lead independent non-executive director for Digicore Holdings Limited &#8211; an appointment he held since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>DigiCore Holdings specialises in the research, design, development, manufacture, sales and support of technologically advanced GPS\/GSM fleet management and vehicle tracking solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Gasa also served as the Chair of the boards of ABSA Provincial KZN, Umgeni Water and Sambulo, as well as on the boards of numerous other companies and forums.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on\u00a0DigiCore<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"DigiCore points to earnings decline\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/32115\/digicore-points-to-earnings-decline\/\">DigiCore points to earnings decline<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"DigiCore lifts full-year revenue by 19%\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/23122\/digicore-lifts-full-year-revenue-by-19\/\">DigiCore lifts full-year revenue by 19%<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DigiCore\u2019s blue sky potential\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/8173\/digicores-blue-sky-potential\/\"><strong>DigiCore\u2019s blue sky potential<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/6407\/digicore-notes-decline-in-interim-operating-profit\/\"><strong>Digicore notes decline in interim operating profit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/8173\/digicores-blue-sky-potential\/\"><strong>DigiCore\u2019s blue sky potential<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/2543\/digicore-in-bid-for-remaining-dfm-sa-shares\/\"><strong>DigiCore in bid for remaining DFM SA shares<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-executive director for JSE-listed DigiCore Holdings, Nlhanhla Gasa has been found dead, according to Eyewitness News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[25,363,5480,5479],"class_list":["post-34524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-active","tag-digicore","tag-murder","tag-nlhanhla-gasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34524","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=34524"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34529,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34524\/revisions\/34529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}