{"id":9902,"date":"2019-05-02T13:58:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T13:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/?p=9902"},"modified":"2019-05-20T14:05:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T14:05:11","slug":"jda-sad-to-announce-the-passing-of-our-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/jda-sad-to-announce-the-passing-of-our-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"JDA sad to announce the passing of our CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Johannesburg Development Agency (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/\">JDA<\/a>) is sad to announce the passing of its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), <a href=\"\/executive-team\/\">Christo Botes<\/a> on Tuesday, 30 April 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Botes joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/\">JDA<\/a> in 2014 as Executive Manager responsible for development facilitation and became CEO of the agency in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Christo will be remembered for his passion and dedication to improving the lives of ordinary citizens through area-based development and urban renewal.<\/p>\n<p>The JDA\u2019s Board Chairperson Mongezi Ntanga said, \u201cI am glad I was able to meet <a href=\"\/executive-team\/\">Christo<\/a> and I was moved by his humility and commitment to the JDA\u2019s work. We are deeply saddened by this loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A memorial service for <a href=\"\/executive-team\/\">Christo<\/a> will be held on Saturday, 4 May 2019 at Spark Gallery, 10 Louis Road, Orchards, Johannesburg from 15:00.<\/p>\n<p>Issued by:<br \/>\nJohannesburg Development Agency<br \/>\nSusan Monyai<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:smonyai@jda.org.za\">smonyai@jda.org.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA) is sad to announce the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":9908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7306],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-releases-2019"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jda.org.za\/archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}