{"id":7396,"date":"2021-04-22T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc\/?p=7396"},"modified":"2021-04-22T12:00:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T12:00:47","slug":"media-statement-sabc-sends-its-condolences-to-the-families-of-ian-wessels-and-grant-shakoane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/media-statement-sabc-sends-its-condolences-to-the-families-of-ian-wessels-and-grant-shakoane\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA STATEMENT SABC SENDS ITS CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILIES OF IAN WESSELS AND GRANT SHAKOANE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Johannesburg &#8211; Thursday, 22 April 2021 <\/strong>&#8211; The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has learnt with sadness of the passing of Mr. Ian Wessels and Mr. Grant Shakoane.<br \/>\nMr. Wessels, who at the time of his passing was a presenter on RSG, was best known for his talk show \u2018Loslippig\u2019 and the legal show \u2018Regsake\u2019. He started his career in broadcasting at Radio Heidelberg and joined RSG in 2009.\u00a0 He loved all aspects of radio and was the author of three books.<br \/>\nMr. Shakoane fondly known on the airwaves as \u201cShebabadoo Shebaba\u201d was an inspirational voice on radio for many emerging broadcasters. He was one of the first 12 on-air personalities on METRO FM in 1986 when the station was founded and\u00a0 hosted the popular Sunday show, <em>The GS Connection<\/em> between 09:00 and 12:00.<br \/>\nBoth Mr. Wessels and Mr. Shakoane made a great contribution during their tenure at the SABC and the industry at large.<br \/>\nThe SABC management and staff would like to send heartfelt condolences to the Wessels and Shakoane families.\u00a0 May their souls rest in peace.<br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ends <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Issued By:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Group Communications <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Media Enquiries:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ms. Mmoni Seapolelo SABC Spokesperson (Acting)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:seapolelomv@sabc.co.za\"><strong>seapolelomv@sabc.co.za<\/strong><\/a><strong>|T. 011 714 3057|C. 073 688 1590<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg &#8211; Thursday, 22 April 2021 &#8211; The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has learnt with sadness of the passing of Mr. Ian Wessels and Mr. Grant Shakoane. Mr. Wessels, who at the time of his passing was a presenter on RSG, was best known for his talk show \u2018Loslippig\u2019 and the legal show \u2018Regsake\u2019. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/7396"}],"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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396\/revisions"}],"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=7396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}