{"id":165920,"date":"2020-09-16T09:38:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T07:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/preparations-underway-for-george-bizos-send-off\/"},"modified":"2020-09-16T09:38:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T07:38:48","slug":"preparations-underway-for-george-bizos-send-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/preparations-underway-for-george-bizos-send-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparations underway for George Bizos send-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funeral arrangements are underway for the late human rights lawyer and social activist, Advocate George Bizos.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bizos passed away at the age of 92 in the afternoon of Wednesday, 9 September 2020.&nbsp;Following his passing, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared that Bizos will be honoured with a Special Official Funeral Category 1. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The funeral service of Bizos will take place at the Greek Orthodox Church in Johannesburg on Thursday, starting at 11h00. This will be followed by a burial at Westpark Cemetery in Randburg, Johannesburg.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Messages of condolences to the family and friends of Bizos&nbsp;can be written on the tribute page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.za\/GeorgeBizos\">https:\/\/www.gov.za\/GeorgeBizos<\/a> or at <a href=\"mailto:condolences@gcis.gov.za\">condolences@gcis.gov.za<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral service will be broadcast live on SABC and other major broadcast channels.&nbsp; In addition, arrangements have been made for&nbsp;the service to be streamed live on the following government online platforms: &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Twitter:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovernmentSA\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovernmentSA<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Facebook:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/GovernmentZA\">https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/GovernmentZA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GovernmentZA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GovernmentZA<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese measures are also to assist those who may not be able to physically attend the funeral due to the current COVID-19 lockdown level 2 regulations, which stipulate that gatherings for funerals may not exceed 50 people,\u201d said the Government Communication and Information System in a statement. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funeral arrangements are underway for the late human rights lawyer and social activist, Advocate George Bizos.&nbsp; Bizos passed away at the age of 92 in the afternoon of Wednesday, 9 September 2020.&nbsp;Following his passing, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared that Bizos will be honoured with a Special Official Funeral Category 1. &nbsp; The funeral service of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-165920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-sanews","8":"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\/165920","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=165920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}