{"id":1991,"date":"2025-11-27T17:13:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2025-11-27T17:13:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:13:56","slug":"funeral-details-for-former-jmpd-chief-david-sony-tembe-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/?p=1991","title":{"rendered":"Funeral Details for Former JMPD Chief David Sony Tembe Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The City of Johannesburg has confirmed that the funeral of Mr David Sony Tembe, former JMPD Chief, former NTP Chief at RTMC, Strategic Advisor, and former MMC for Public Safety, will be held on Saturday, 29 November 2025, at 08:00 at Johannesburg Central College, Fourways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A message book has been placed at the entrance of the Department of Public Safety for staff and visitors to write messages of condolence in honour of his service and leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Tembe is remembered as a committed public servant whose decades of work in law enforcement helped shape Johannesburg\u2019s safety and traffic management systems. His dedication to accountability, discipline, and community safety continues to inspire many within the sector<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Johannesburg has confirmed that the funeral of Mr David Sony Tembe, former JMPD Chief, former NTP Chief at RTMC, Strategic Advisor, and former MMC for Public Safety,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[165,158,160,26,163,157,164],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-news","tag-buyamthetho","tag-cityofjoburg","tag-david-tembe","tag-diepsloot-news","tag-jmpd","tag-joburg","tag-nomakanjanimanjenamhlanje"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1993,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/1993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}