{"id":2586,"date":"2018-05-23T07:23:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T07:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2018-05-23T07:23:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T07:23:18","slug":"sabc-mourns-the-passing-of-eddie-funde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc-mourns-the-passing-of-eddie-funde\/","title":{"rendered":"SABC MOURNS THE PASSING OF EDDIE FUNDE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SABC MOURNS THE PASSING OF EDDIE FUNDE<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Johannesburg-Tuesday, 22 May 2018\u00a0<\/b><\/span>-The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) mourns the passing of Mr. Sonwabo Eddie Funde, former SABC Board Chairperson. He served on the SABC Board between 2004 -2008. The success and growth of the SABC under his leadership bares testimony to his wealth of knowledge and great expertise. He will be remembered for his humble yet assertive nature.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Following his tenure at the SABC, Mr. Funde represented the Republic of South Africa as an Ambassador to Germany.\u00a0<\/span>Throughout his career, he has been well positioned to navigate the transformation needed in the country<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>His meaningful contribution to society at large has not only left a positive impact but serves as the epitome of leadership that we can all draw inspiration from.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Prior to joining the SABC, Mr. Funde\u00a0<\/span><\/span>served in various public and private companies at executive and non- executive level, in the following capacities:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\u00b7<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Founder Executive Deputy Chairman for the Council of the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (SATRA, which is now known as ICASA);<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\u00b7<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>President and Board Chairman of the South African Communications Forum (SACF);\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\u00b7<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Executive Director for the South African Research and Development Trust;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\u00b7<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Director of the Independent Development Trust\u00a0 (IDT);<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\u00b7<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Non-executive member of the Board of Directors of Eskom Holdings Limited, these are amongst other prominent roles he occupied<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
The SABC Board,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0management\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and staff would like to send condolences to the Funde Family, his friends and acquaintances all over the world. May they find solace in knowing that Mr. Funde\u2019s<\/span><\/span>achievements and actions inspired others to dream, learn, do and become more. May his soul rest in eternal peace.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Media Enquiries<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Kaizer Kganyago<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
SABC Spokesperson<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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MEDIA STATEMENT \u00a0 SABC MOURNS THE PASSING OF EDDIE FUNDE \u00a0 Johannesburg-Tuesday, 22 May 2018\u00a0-The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) mourns the passing of Mr. Sonwabo Eddie Funde, former SABC Board Chairperson. He served on the SABC Board between 2004 -2008. The success and growth of the SABC under his leadership bares testimony to his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2587,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions\/2587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}