FOREIGN affairs media director Marco Boni on Friday lost his bid in the Pretoria High Court to order his minister, Nkosazana Zuma, to grant him a voluntary severance package worth more than R800000. Boni had claimed that deputy foreign minister Aziz Pahad approved the package on November 1 last year. On November 29, Boni received a letter informing him that Zuma had refused the package. Judge FCL Roos found that Pahad did not have the authority to approve the package and that he had in fact only recommended it. The case was dismissed with costs.