{"id":1437,"date":"2021-01-05T10:47:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T08:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2021-01-05T10:51:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T08:51:50","slug":"message-of-condolence-from-minister-senzo-mchunu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/2021\/01\/05\/message-of-condolence-from-minister-senzo-mchunu\/","title":{"rendered":"Message of condolence from Minister Senzo Mchunu on the passing of the NATU President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for the Pubic Service and Administration, Honorable Senzo Mchunu, MP, sends a message of condolences on the passing of the National Teachers&#8217;s Union (NATU) President, Mr Allen Tompson.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said &#8220;it is with great sadness that we learn of the passing of NATU President, Mr Allen Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr Thompson matured as a trade unionist and as a leader. His passing is indeed a great loss not only for the members of NATU, but also to the public service as a whole. His passion for education and commitment to fighting for the rights of educators was unmatched.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My sincerest condolences to Mr Thompson&#8217;s family, friends, colleagues, and the teaching fraternity. May his soul rest in peace&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for the Pubic Service and Administration, Honorable Senzo Mchunu, MP, sends a message of condolences on the passing of the National Teachers&#8217;s Union (NATU) President, Mr Allen Tompson. The Minister said &#8220;it is with great sadness that we learn of the passing of NATU President, Mr Allen Thompson. &#8220;Mr Thompson matured as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}