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South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by frog12(op): 1:43pm On Sep 30, 2025
South African ambassador dies after falling from Paris hotel room
Story by Kieran Kelly


Emmanuel Nkosinathi Mthethwa was found dead near the Hyatt Hotel at Porte Maillot - South African Embassy in Paris
South Africa’s ambassador to France has been found dead after falling from the 22nd floor of his hotel room.


Emmanuel Nkosinathi Mthethwa, who was reported missing on Monday, was found dead near the Hyatt Hotel at Porte Maillot in Paris on Tuesday, sources told Le Parisien.

Mr Mthethwa, 58, was reported missing by his wife after she received a “worrying message in the evening”, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. Fearing that he had taken his own life, the police started a search party in the woods in western Paris.

Mr Mthethwa was appointed to the role in February last year. He also served as South Africa’s permanent delegate to Unesco after a decades-long career in politics.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/09/30/south-african-ambassador-falls-to-death-from-paris-apartmen

Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by RandDigital: 2:08pm On Sep 30, 2025
Very suspicious considering he's a former police minister and there's currently an inquiry into corruption in that ministry.
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by IronGalaxy: 2:20pm On Sep 30, 2025
RandDigital:
Very suspicious considering he's a former police minister and there's currently an inquiry into corruption in that ministry.
I had to rush to Google to check after seeing this here, damn.. Definitely foul play
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by frog12(op): 2:20pm On Sep 30, 2025
i see. so they are investigating his term as a minister?

i thought it was also suspicious


RandDigital:
Very suspicious considering he's a former police minister and there's currently an inquiry into corruption in that ministry.
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by dominique(mod): 2:25pm On Sep 30, 2025
This need to be investigated, hope there were surveillance cameras to capture what happened
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by Fatbam005: 2:28pm On Sep 30, 2025
I come to realise nothing is important in this life and all power belongs to God. RIp to the death. We are all sojourners after all. Its such a miserable world
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by jerryunit48: 2:28pm On Sep 30, 2025
Eyaaa … my phobia for these high buildings ehhh.

I fear dem …
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by greatiyk4u(m): 2:28pm On Sep 30, 2025
This is pure hatchet job to cover up shit.
Any way may he find peace in the bossom of the Lord
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by AdolfHitlerxXx: 2:28pm On Sep 30, 2025
Probably a political assassination.

Remember when Rwandan agents terminated a former friend of Paul Kagame.

Bad🥷
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by Reference(m): 2:30pm On Sep 30, 2025
The assassin's are in copyright violation of exclusive FSB rights.
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by IlorinStudent(m): 2:31pm On Sep 30, 2025
Wow! May His soul rest in peace. This is a very tragic news
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by lapazi(m): 2:31pm On Sep 30, 2025
I’ve seen too much movies to know that this should definitely be treated as Homicide.

The Jackal comes to mind.
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by Houseofglam7(f): 2:31pm On Sep 30, 2025
Hmmmmmmm. We can speculate and speculate and speculate.
May his soul rest in peace.
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by Gotocourt: 2:32pm On Sep 30, 2025
RandDigital:
Very suspicious considering he's a former police minister and there's currently an inquiry into corruption in that ministry.
Likely suicide if guilty, or stroke knocked him off while standing at the balcony 🤷🏿
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by alpamo6: 2:33pm On Sep 30, 2025
Going by what is happening in the world, conspiracy theories, Mossad.
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by AngelahFlo(m): 2:33pm On Sep 30, 2025
RandDigital:
Very suspicious considering he's a former police minister and there's currently an inquiry into corruption in that ministry.
You just wrote the first thought that came to my mind after reading this. This looks like a suicide but it smells like...murder.
If it's really suicide, he must have been pressured into it otherwise it's something else. Chai!
It's well
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by AngelicBeing: 2:34pm On Sep 30, 2025
It looks suspicious ooooooooo, fell from a 22 Floor, Luxury hotel , could it be SUICIDE or someone pushed him from the window to kill him, to cover up some SHADY DEALS at the Police department in South Africa.....
Nawaooo shocked
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by frog12(op): 2:34pm On Sep 30, 2025
e just be like one James Bond film. it should be treated in very suspicious manner.
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by Nwaikpe: 2:35pm On Sep 30, 2025
Sources have it that he was shouting "free free palestine" when he went to account for it.

grin grin grin
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by AngelahFlo(m): 2:37pm On Sep 30, 2025
dominique:
This need to be investigated, hope there were surveillance cameras to capture what happened
As if you don't know how cases like this plays out. Surveillance cameras or not. If it was a murder. Ain't nothing can be done about it. It's just sad.
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by BarrElChapo(m): 2:37pm On Sep 30, 2025
I think this might be a homicide.

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Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by SlavaUkraini: 2:39pm On Sep 30, 2025
Suicide

suicide.... suicide... suicide... suicide... suicide
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by RandDigital: 2:40pm On Sep 30, 2025
IronGalaxy:
I had to rush to Google to check after seeing this here, damn.. Definitely foul play
I trust Mkhwanazi to tell us who's behind this. SAPS is just one huge crime scene.
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by FarahAideed: 2:40pm On Sep 30, 2025
This one na Mossad handwork make we no lie .na their handwork be that
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by TheGodmother(f): 2:41pm On Sep 30, 2025
Reference:
The assassin's are in copyright violation of exclusive FSB rights.
OMG, I thought the same thing!

This is strictly KGB signature.

All others na counterfeit.
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by IronGalaxy: 2:41pm On Sep 30, 2025
RandDigital:
I trust Mkhwanazi to tell us who's behind this. SAPS is just one huge crime scene.
Everything's a movie at this point.. or he probably jumped himself
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by iichidodo: 2:41pm On Sep 30, 2025
[color=#2986BC] Defenestration.....A very fine act of committing murder and sending a message to those at large in an egalitarian manner like the french of the Napoleonic era..Very fitting it was committed in the French capital.[/color]
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by grandstar(m): 2:43pm On Sep 30, 2025
He is resting in peace (Ecclesiastes 9:5,10)

It has the stench of murder oozing out.
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by Almunjid: 2:45pm On Sep 30, 2025
Rest in peace, but I can't help but wonder if someone might have taken a page from Putin's playbook. The circumstances surrounding his death appear suspicious.

Peace!
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by RandDigital: 2:47pm On Sep 30, 2025
frog12:
i see. so they are investigating his term as a minister?

i thought it was also suspicious
The current minister has been suspended for alleged links to criminal syndicates, so the entire ministry is under investigation going back many years and administrations (including when Mthethwa was also minister).

There's a top cop called Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi who blew the whistle on all the rot. It's the biggest story of the year in SA.
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by ViceGovernor: 2:48pm On Sep 30, 2025
FarahAideed:
This one na Mossad handwork make we no lie .na their handwork be that
Muhamed farahAideed do you have evidence of what you just typed??

Israel has a list of countries who spoke against it in the just concluded UN GA.
Hand go definitely touch all of them.... Nigeria included.
Re: South African Ambassador Dies After Falling From Paris Hotel Room by MaziObinnaokija: 2:49pm On Sep 30, 2025
sad A witch cries in the night and a child dies next morning sad morning
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