{"id":2633,"date":"2014-06-14T13:36:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T06:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2633"},"modified":"2014-06-14T13:36:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T06:36:49","slug":"funeral-held-in-kenya-for-internet-entrepreneur-carey-eaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/funeral-held-in-kenya-for-internet-entrepreneur-carey-eaton\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral held in Kenya for internet entrepreneur Carey Eaton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nairobi – The funeral for prominent Kenyan-Australian internet entrepreneur Carey Eaton, who was murdered last week in an apparent armed robbery, was held in Nairobi on Friday.<\/p>\n

Eaton, aged 41 and married with four children, was a founder of One Africa Media, the continent’s largest online classifieds group, and was a former CIO of Seek, the Australian job search site.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of colleagues and well-wishers joined family members for an emotional funeral in Nairobi’s main Baptist church, with tributes paid to an “African tech genius” eager to develop talent and jobs in Africa.<\/p>\n

A commentary in the Financial Times said Eaton had urged people “not to judge Africa by its sometimes lurid headlines.”<\/p>\n

“That he should have become one of those headlines is a truly terrible irony,” the FT said.<\/p>\n

Eaton was shot dead by armed robbers while dining with friends at their home in a Nairobi suburb. Police are still investigating the murder…<\/p>\n

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Nairobi – The funeral for prominent Kenyan-Australian internet entrepreneur Carey Eaton, who was murdered last week in an apparent armed robbery, was held in Nairobi on Friday. Eaton, aged 41 and married with four children, was a founder of One Africa Media, the continent’s largest online classifieds group, and was a former CIO of Seek, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[300,250],"tags":[258,256,730,729,4695,732,4688,430,728,259,257,731,254],"class_list":["post-2633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-east-africa","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-armed-robbery","tag-carey-eaton","tag-east-africa","tag-eaton-was-shot-dead-by-armed-robbers","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan-australian-internet-entrepreneur-carey-eaton","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-one-africa-media","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}