{"id":1406,"date":"2018-08-16T08:28:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T08:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dsac\/2018\/08\/16\/northern-cape-provincial-government-hosts-a-successful-women-s-day-celebrations\/"},"modified":"2018-08-16T08:28:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T08:28:21","slug":"northern-cape-provincial-government-hosts-a-successful-women-s-day-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dsac\/2018\/08\/16\/northern-cape-provincial-government-hosts-a-successful-women-s-day-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT HOSTS A SUCCESSFUL WOMEN&#8217;S DAY CELEBRATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-1405\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dsac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/08\/image16.JPG\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: left; width: 220px; height: 148px;\" width=\"879\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dsac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/08\/image16.JPG 879w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dsac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/08\/image16-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dsac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/08\/image16-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dsac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/08\/image16-380x254.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 879px) 100vw, 879px\" \/>The Northern Cape Provincial Government celebrated a successful Women&#39;s Day programme on Sunday, 12 August 2018. The programme was held at Douglas Stadium in the Pixley ka Seme District. It was commemorated under the theme <em><strong>&quot;100 Years of Albertina Sisulu: Woman of Fortitude, Women United in Moving South Africa Forward&quot;<\/strong><\/em>. Premier Ms. Sylvia Lucas delivered a keynote during the event. She was accompanied by the Northern Cape MEC for Sport, Arts and Culture Ms. Bongiwe Mbinqo-Gigaba, MEC for Public Works Mr. Mxolisi Sokatsha, MEC for Economic Development and Tourism Mr.Mac Jack and other dignitaries.<\/p>\n<p>The event was attended by over one-thousand women who had travelled from various parts of the province to commemorate the day. This year&rsquo;s commemoration had taken place on a special significance as it is the year of the &ldquo;triple centenary&rdquo;. South Africa celebrates the birth of struggle icon Mama Albertina Sisulu and Tata Nelson Mandela as well as the formation of the Bantu Women&rsquo;s League.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Five girl children from local schools were afforded a platform to voice their challenges in to the Premier and other politicians during the event. Premier Lucas also paid a special tribute to Northern Cape women who have left an indelible mark in their communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Cape Provincial Government celebrated a successful Women&#39;s Day programme on Sunday, 12 August 2018. The programme was held at Douglas Stadium in the Pixley ka Seme District. It was commemorated under the theme &quot;100 Years of Albertina Sisulu: Woman of Fortitude, Women United in Moving South Africa Forward&quot;. Premier Ms. Sylvia Lucas delivered<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dsac\/2018\/08\/16\/northern-cape-provincial-government-hosts-a-successful-women-s-day-celebrations\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dsac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dsac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dsac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dsac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dsac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dsac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dsac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dsac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dsac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dsac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}