{"id":210485,"date":"2021-12-03T09:13:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T07:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/condolences-as-sarah-baartman-district-mayor-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2021-12-03T09:13:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T07:13:41","slug":"condolences-as-sarah-baartman-district-mayor-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/condolences-as-sarah-baartman-district-mayor-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Condolences as Sarah Baartman District Mayor passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202112\/mayors.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has expressed condolences to the family of&nbsp;Sarah Baartman District Municipality Mayor, Councillor Mzimkhulu \u2018Scara\u2019 Njadayi.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Minister said&nbsp;Njadayi\u2019s death had come as a shock, considering he had been elected into the position on 24 November 2021.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the Mayor died after collapsing at the municipal premises in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>She said the Mayor had gladly accepted the responsibility with determination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike a true soldier, he passed away with his boots on, in the first council meeting where important decisions are taken to better the work of local government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is hard to come to terms with such a loss when we were still expecting a lot from him in terms of fighting poverty, increasing the pace of job creation, and to giving meaning and effect to local economic development programmes,\u201d said the Minister.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister and the department sent condolences to the Njadayi family, his friends and colleagues as well as the people of the district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with you all during this difficult time. May his soul rest in peace,\u201d she said. \u2013<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has expressed condolences to the family of&nbsp;Sarah Baartman District Municipality Mayor, Councillor Mzimkhulu \u2018Scara\u2019 Njadayi. In a statement, the Minister said&nbsp;Njadayi\u2019s death had come as a shock, considering he had been elected into the position on 24 November 2021. According to reports, the Mayor died after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-210485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/condolences-as-sarah-baartman-district-mayor-passes-away.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}