Image source, Gallo via Getty ImagesImage caption, Nathi Mthethwa served in the top diplomatic post in France since December 2023Published30 September 2025 South Africa's ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, has been found dead near the four-star Hyatt Regency Hotel in Paris, French officials have told the BBC. Mthethwa, 58, was reported missing by his wife on Monday evening, after a "worrying message from him", the Paris prosecutor's office said. He had booked a room on the 22nd floor of the high-rise hotel, whose security window was forced open, it added. The circumstances around his death are unclear at this stage, and an investigation has been opened, the Paris prosecutor's office said, adding that a duty magistrate was "going to the scene". Mthethwa was a high-ranking member of the African National Congress, the party that brought in democratic rule in 1994 with Nelson Mandela as South Africa's first black president.
Published: September 30, 2025 4:21 pm
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