{"id":18848,"date":"2013-03-22T03:31:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T01:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/human-rights-day-celebrations-in-the-city\/"},"modified":"2013-03-22T03:31:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T01:31:57","slug":"human-rights-day-celebrations-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/human-rights-day-celebrations-in-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Day celebrations in the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200b<\/p>\n<p>The City of Cape Town will commemorate Human Rights Day, 21 March, by renaming six streets and a civic centre in honour of struggle stalwarts. <\/p>\n<p>Robert Sobukwe, Govan Mbeki, Dulcie September, Walter Sisulu, Uys Krige, Japhta K. Masemola, and Iman Heron will all be honoured. This forms part of the City\u2019s efforts to build an Inclusive City that promotes reconciliation and redress.<\/p>\n<p>Close relatives of each of the individuals honoured have been invited to this historic celebration, which will also be attended by representatives from the ANC and PAC.<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest phase of the City\u2019s naming process to recognise the contribution made by individuals from across all sectors of society towards the attainment of democracy in our country. <\/p>\n<p>Since coming into office in 2011, this administration has already honoured former President Nelson Mandela, Chief Albert Luthuli, Helen Suzman, Dr. Chris Barnard, Steve Biko and Krotoa, by either renaming existing public facilities or naming new ones in their honour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200b The City of Cape Town will commemorate Human Rights Day, 21 March, by renaming six streets and a civic centre in honour of struggle stalwarts. Robert Sobukwe, Govan Mbeki, Dulcie September, Walter Sisulu, Uys Krige, Japhta K. Masemola, and Iman Heron will all be honoured. This forms part of the City\u2019s efforts to build [&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":[25,1737,77],"class_list":{"0":"post-18848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-cape-town-2","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-municipality","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\/18848","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=18848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}