{"id":870,"date":"2025-09-06T10:48:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T10:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/2025\/09\/06\/heritage-day-celebrations\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T10:48:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T10:48:28","slug":"heritage-day-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/2025\/09\/06\/heritage-day-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"HERITAGE DAY CELEBRATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-869\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/09\/IMG_8344.jpeg\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left; width: 300px; height: 200px;\" width=\"1440\" height=\"959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/09\/IMG_8344.jpeg 1440w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/09\/IMG_8344-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/09\/IMG_8344-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/09\/IMG_8344-768x511.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/09\/IMG_8344-380x254.jpeg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, &quot;nimbus sans l&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">The Northern Cape Provincial Government joined millions across the country&nbsp;in commemorating and celebrating Heritage Day.<\/span><br style=\"font-size: small; font-family: tahoma, arial, &quot;nimbus sans l&quot;, sans-serif;\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-size: small; font-family: tahoma, arial, &quot;nimbus sans l&quot;, sans-serif;\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, &quot;nimbus sans l&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">The day was celebrated under the theme, &lsquo;Reimagining our Heritage&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, &quot;nimbus sans l&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">Institutions for a new era&rsquo;. The theme emphasises the importance of&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, &quot;nimbus sans l&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">leveraging heritage as a foundation for building a dynamic, socially&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, &quot;nimbus sans l&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">responsive, technologically innovative and economically inclusive future.<\/span><br style=\"font-size: small; font-family: tahoma, arial, &quot;nimbus sans l&quot;, sans-serif;\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-size: small; font-family: tahoma, arial, &quot;nimbus sans l&quot;, sans-serif;\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, &quot;nimbus sans l&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">In his address Premier Saul encouraged community members to not allow for&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, &quot;nimbus sans l&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">divisions based on race and culture. Premier Saul further encouraged&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, &quot;nimbus sans l&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">community members to work together with Government to preserve our&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, &quot;nimbus sans l&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">heritage.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Cape Provincial Government joined millions across the country&nbsp;in commemorating and celebrating Heritage Day. The day was celebrated under the theme, &lsquo;Reimagining our Heritage&nbsp;Institutions for a new era&rsquo;. The theme emphasises the importance of&nbsp;leveraging heritage as a foundation for building a dynamic, socially&nbsp;responsive, technologically innovative and economically inclusive future. In his address Premier Saul<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/2025\/09\/06\/heritage-day-celebrations\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","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=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}