{"id":229223,"date":"2022-06-20T10:06:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T08:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/president-to-deliver-eulogy-for-late-king-of-amampondo\/"},"modified":"2022-06-20T10:06:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T08:06:25","slug":"president-to-deliver-eulogy-for-late-king-of-amampondo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/president-to-deliver-eulogy-for-late-king-of-amampondo\/","title":{"rendered":"President to deliver eulogy for late King of amaMpondo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202206\/sigcau_0.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to deliver the eulogy at the funeral service of the late King of amaMpondo, Zanozuko Tyelovuyo Sigcau.<\/p>\n<p>The President has accorded the King of amaMpondo a special official funeral Category 1. He was inaugurated as a King of the amaMpondo nation in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring his tenure, he actively championed the development and progress of the amaMpondo Kingdom, and united the people to become active citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKing Zanozuko Tyelovuyo Sigcau was an activist, a sports enthusiast, and a cultural curator who played a significant role to make a difference in the lives of people through various initiatives to address the social issues such as Gender-Based Violence,\u201d the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) said.<\/p>\n<p>In line with this category, the President has instructed that the National Flag fly at half-mast at every flag station in the country from the morning of Wednesday, 15 June 2022, to the evening of the burial.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral service will take place on Tuesday at Flagstaff in the Eastern Cape Province. The service will commence at 10am.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Condolence books<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Condolence books have been placed at various government and municipal buildings across the Eastern Cape province.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public, who would like to convey their message of condolences to the amaMpondo Kingdom, are encouraged to write their messages in the condolence books.<\/p>\n<p>The condolence books are at the following venues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ndimakude, Royal Family in Flagstaff<\/li>\n<li>Eastern Cape House of&nbsp; Khoisan and Traditional leaders and Provincial Government Offices in Bisho<\/li>\n<li>Alfred Nzo District Municipality in EMaXesibeni (Mount Ayliff)<\/li>\n<li>OR Tambo District Municipality in Mthatha<\/li>\n<li>Ingquza Hill Local Municipality in Flagstaff<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Social media<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The social media campaign on Twitter and Facebook has already started and will run until Tuesday, 21 June 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public are requested to use the following accounts @GovZA on Twitter and the Government ZA Facebook page to pay tribute to the late King of amaMpondo.<\/p>\n<p>The official hashtag is #RIPKumkaniSigcau. \u2013 <strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to deliver the eulogy at the funeral service of the late King of amaMpondo, Zanozuko Tyelovuyo Sigcau. The President has accorded the King of amaMpondo a special official funeral Category 1. He was inaugurated as a King of the amaMpondo nation in 2018. \u201cDuring his tenure, he actively championed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229224,"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-229223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/president-to-deliver-eulogy-for-late-king-of-amampondo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229223","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=229223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}