\u201cAbout 250 people volunteered and sang out loud, which created a wonderful atmosphere at the plant. Goodyear<\/a> donated R10 for every person who sang to the Steven Nkomo School in Kwanobuhle\u201d said Lize Hayward (Goodyear Group Brand Communications Manager). <\/p>\n \u201cThe company then transported three groups of volunteering employees at hourly intervals to the Oosterland Youth Centre in Despatch, an organisation with whom Goodyear has a longstanding supportive relationship. They celebrated a birthday party with 18 of its children between the ages of four and six years old. <\/p>\n \u201cThey also handed over personal donations of stationary, toiletries, clothing, linen and blankets to the Centre.\u201d<\/p>\n Submit your Mandela Day Press Release to MyPE here<\/a> and to MyPR here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The children of Oosterland Youth Centre in Despatch celebrated Mandela\u2019s birthday with a huge Madiba cake and supportive Goodyear employees.<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In celebration of Madiba\u2019s 94th birthday the Uitenhage based Goodyear tyre factory stopped production where possible early this morning, to enable its employees to sing happy birthday to Nelson Mandela. \u201cAbout 250 people volunteered and sang out loud, which created a wonderful atmosphere at the plant. Goodyear donated R10 for every person who sang to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-12560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"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\/12560","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/84934_Oosterland.jpg\")
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