{"id":918574,"date":"2022-01-22T12:22:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T12:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/22\/veteran-actor-patrick-shai-has-died\/"},"modified":"2022-01-22T12:22:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T12:22:56","slug":"veteran-actor-patrick-shai-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/22\/veteran-actor-patrick-shai-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran actor Patrick Shai has died"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Local veteran actor Patrick Shai died on Saturday, January 22, his family confirmed.<\/p>\n

In a statement the family announced that the \u201c7de Laan\u201d actor had died and asked for time to process his passing with more details to follow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt is with great sadness to announce the passing of the veteran actor Ntate Patrick Shai. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe passed away this morning. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe sincerely ask you to give the family time to process this painful loss. More details will be shared in due course,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The veteran actor best known for his roles in \u201cSoul City\u201d, \u201cGenerations\u201d and \u201cYizo Yizo\u201d.<\/p>\n

Earlier the week, Shai issued an apology to rapper Cassper Nyovest for saying disrespectful things about the \u201cDestiny\u2019 hitmaker\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n

In his apology video, Shai apologised to Cassper for his strong language towards his mother.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Shai explains he should have known better as an older person and profusely apologised to the rapper for using vulgar language.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy apologies, I humbly, from the bottom of my heart, apologise for having used such strong language towards your mom.<\/p>\n

\u201cI apologise from the bottom of my heart, please forgive me and forgive me South Africans. I am regretting every bit of the last sentence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The \u201cTito Mboweni\u201d hitmaker went on to express to his fans in a series of tweets about him being tired of his family being dragged in the public space.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there’s one thing is regret about my fame is how my family has been disrespected by strangers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI try so hard to be about my own business but it’s always sh*t like this and I have to keep it moving to protect my brand cause brands will never understand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis is too much man.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Local veteran actor Patrick Shai died on Saturday, January 22, his family confirmed. In a statement the family announced that the \u201c7de Laan\u201d actor had died and asked for time to process his passing with more details to follow. \u201cIt is with great sadness to announce the passing of the veteran actor Ntate Patrick Shai. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}