{"id":463199,"date":"2025-09-30T13:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/463199\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T13:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:46:13","slug":"south-africas-ambassador-to-france-found-dead-outside-paris-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/463199\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s ambassador to France found dead outside Paris hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n         Published on<br \/>\n            30\/09\/2025 &#8211; 15:43 GMT+2\n            <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s ambassador to France was found dead outside a high-rise hotel in Paris on Tuesday, according to local authorities. <\/p>\n<p>The Paris prosecutor&#8217;s office has launched an investigation into the death of Nkosinathi Emmanuel Mthethwa.<\/p>\n<p>The 58-year-old was reported missing by his wife on Monday after she received a worrying text message from him, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Mthethwa had booked a room on the 22nd floor of the Hyatt Regency hotel, and the secure window had been forced open, the prosecutor&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>The South African government issued a statement later on Tuesday mourning the &#8220;untimely passing&#8221; of Mthethwa in France.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have no doubt that his passing is not only a national loss but is also felt within the international diplomatic community,&#8221; said Ronald Lamola, South Africa&#8217;s minister of international relations and cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Mthethwa was South Africa&#8217;s minister of arts and culture from 2014 to 2019, and minister of sports, arts and culture between 2019 and 2023. <\/p>\n<p>He was posted to the French embassy in February 2024 and was also South Africa&#8217;s permanent delegate to UNESCO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 30\/09\/2025 &#8211; 15:43 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT South Africa&#8217;s ambassador to France was found dead outside a high-rise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[71495,10957,62531,2000,299,36,2196],"class_list":{"0":"post-463199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-ambassador","9":"tag-death","10":"tag-embassy","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115293559858554413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}