{"id":1502,"date":"2023-09-11T13:24:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T13:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/2023\/09\/11\/nelson-mandela-day-celebrations-in-upington\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T13:24:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T13:24:48","slug":"nelson-mandela-day-celebrations-in-upington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/2023\/09\/11\/nelson-mandela-day-celebrations-in-upington\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Mandela Day Celebrations in Upington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-1501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/09\/FB_IMG_1692613662090.jpg\" alt=\"FB IMG 1692613662090\" width=\"170\" height=\"227\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/09\/FB_IMG_1692613662090.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/09\/FB_IMG_1692613662090-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">18 July 2023 &#8211; MEC Nomandla Bloem joined by HOD Rodney Pieterse and the departmental staff, led the Nelson Mandela International day celebrations in Upington.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">MEC Bloem distributed 30 Shovakalula bicycles to Louisvale Primary School learners and furniture for the Victim Friendly Facility (VFF) at the Kanoneiland Police Station.&nbsp;The department also refurbished a home of an elderly couple in Pabalelo and handed over groceries, furniture for the house and provided seeds to start a vegetable garden.This year&rsquo;s Nelson Mandela International Day is celebrated under the theme: &ldquo;Solidarity in reducing climate change and food insecurity&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 July 2023 &#8211; MEC Nomandla Bloem joined by HOD Rodney Pieterse and the departmental staff, led the Nelson Mandela International day celebrations in Upington.&nbsp; MEC Bloem distributed 30 Shovakalula bicycles to Louisvale Primary School learners and furniture for the Victim Friendly Facility (VFF) at the Kanoneiland Police Station.&nbsp;The department also refurbished a home of<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/2023\/09\/11\/nelson-mandela-day-celebrations-in-upington\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}