{"id":7948,"date":"2021-07-24T08:49:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T08:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc\/?p=7948"},"modified":"2021-07-24T08:49:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T08:49:35","slug":"media-statement-the-sabc-sends-condolences-to-the-amankwa-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/media-statement-the-sabc-sends-condolences-to-the-amankwa-family\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA STATEMENT &#124; THE SABC SENDS CONDOLENCES TO THE AMANKWA FAMILY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Johannesburg, Saturday, 24 July 2021<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is saddened by the passing of Mr. Coudjoe Amankwa. Mr. Amankwa worked for the SABC as a Sports Analyst and participated in some of the major sporting events including FIFA World Cup, Confederation of African Football and many Premier Soccer League matches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was devoted to the Corporation and served diligently by always providing a wealth of knowledge and expertise in his field of work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The General Manager for SABC Sport, Mr. Gary Rathbone stated that &#8220;I would like to pay tribute to a person who was not only extremely knowledgeable about football on our continent, but who was courageous, never afraid to speak his mind and always warm-hearted and larger than life. Having known and worked with Coudjoe since the early 2000s, I considered him a friend as much as a colleague, and will miss his presence in our world of sport immensely&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SABC Management and staff would like to send heartfelt condolences to the Amankwa family and friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>END<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><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\u00a0Group Communications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Media Enquiries:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Ms. Gugu Ntuli (Group Executive: Corporate Affairs and Marketing)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"mailto:NtuliGM@sabc.co.za\"><strong>NtuliGM@sabc.co.za<\/strong><\/a><strong>|T. 011 714 3311|C. 071 877 0513<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg, Saturday, 24 July 2021&#8211;\u00a0The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is saddened by the passing of Mr. Coudjoe Amankwa. Mr. Amankwa worked for the SABC as a Sports Analyst and participated in some of the major sporting events including FIFA World Cup, Confederation of African Football and many Premier Soccer League matches. He was devoted [&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\/7948"}],"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=7948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/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=7948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}