{"id":122,"date":"2013-09-09T18:19:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T18:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/2013\/09\/09\/launch-of-womens-month\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T18:19:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T18:19:58","slug":"launch-of-womens-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/2013\/09\/09\/launch-of-womens-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of Women&#8217;s Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier of the Northern Cape, Ms Sylvia Lucas, invites members of  the media to a media breakfast to officially launch the Women\u2019s Month  Programme.<\/p>\n<p>The month of August was declared Women\u2019s month by the democratically  elected government of South Africa following a series of political  activism by women during the struggle for liberation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s month pays  tribute not only to the thousands of women who marched on the 9th  August 1956 but is also a tribute to the pioneers of the women\u2019s  movement in this country.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Cape Gender machinery that comprises of Provincial  Government departments, NGOs, CBOs, Organised labour, civil society  organisations and Political formation makes a collective effort to  ensure that the struggle for women emancipation and the empowerment of  women is the main focus during this month.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Lucas will be joined by Members of the Executive Council, MPL\u2019s,  Mayors, Representatives from NGO\u2019s and CBO\u2019s, Chapter 9 Institutions and  Senior Public servants.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><strong>The event is scheduled to take place as follows: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Date: 1 August 2013 <br \/>Venue: Savoy Hotel <br \/>Time: 8h00-10h00<\/p>\n<p><strong>Released by Communications Directorate, Office of the Premier Northern Cape<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact person:<\/strong><br \/>Ms Bronwyn Thomas-Abrahams, <br \/>083 447 6586<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier of the Northern Cape, Ms Sylvia Lucas, invites members of the media to a media breakfast to officially launch the Women\u2019s Month Programme. The month of August was declared Women\u2019s month by the democratically elected government of South Africa following a series of political activism by women during the struggle for liberation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}