{"id":12075,"date":"2012-07-04T00:12:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T22:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/mandela-daughter-named-ambassador-to-argentina\/"},"modified":"2012-07-04T00:12:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T22:12:06","slug":"mandela-daughter-named-ambassador-to-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mandela-daughter-named-ambassador-to-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandela daughter named ambassador to Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, July 3<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa has appointed<br \/>\nZenani Mandela-Dlamini, a daughter of former President Nelson<br \/>\nMandela, as its ambassador to Argentina.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The businesswoman is the first daughter of Mandela&#8217;s<br \/>\nmarriage to his former wife Winnie.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her appointment represents a clear recognition of the<br \/>\nimportance the South African government attaches to the<br \/>\nrelationship with Argentina,&#8221; the Foreign Ministry of Argentina<br \/>\nsaid in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the presidency of Nelson Mandela, recognised as a<br \/>\nglobal figure for his fight against apartheid and for human<br \/>\nrights, Zenani Dlamini accompanied her father to act as First<br \/>\nLady of her country,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zenani Mandela-Dlamini was a child when Nelson Mandela was<br \/>\nin prison. She married into the Swaziland royal family but later<br \/>\ndivorced her prince husband.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South African foreign ministry officials were not<br \/>\nimmediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, July 3 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa has appointed Zenani Mandela-Dlamini, a daughter of former President Nelson Mandela, as its ambassador to Argentina. The businesswoman is the first daughter of Mandela&#8217;s marriage to his former wife Winnie. &#8220;Her appointment represents a clear recognition of the importance the South African government attaches to the relationship with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-12075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}