{"id":70469,"date":"2016-05-25T01:40:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T23:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/un-to-mark-africa-day-with-variety-show\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T01:40:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T23:40:27","slug":"un-to-mark-africa-day-with-variety-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/un-to-mark-africa-day-with-variety-show\/","title":{"rendered":"UN to mark Africa Day with variety show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <span dir=\"ltr\"><br \/>\n                                                    NEW YORK, United States of America, May 24, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212;<br \/>\n                                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Media is invited to attend celebrations to mark Africa Day by the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in Pretoria, on Wednesday, May 25, 2016<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This years\u2019theme is \u201cCelebrating Africa\u201d \u2013 a valiant celebration of Africa, its history and prosperous future. We will showcase talent from various African dance troupes, poets, musicians and as well as statements from inspirational speakers.<\/p>\n<p>\nTime:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 09h00 \u201313h00<br \/>\nVenue:UN Information Centre Library, Metropark Building, 351 Francis Baard Street, Pretoria<br \/>\nWho:\u00a0 Special guests will include:<\/p>\n<p>His Excellency Mr Mahamoud Adam Bechir, Ambassador of the Republic of Chad<br \/>\nMr Mamadou Diallo, First Secretary of the Republic of Senegal<br \/>\nZolani Mkhiva South African poet, praise singer and social activist<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nBackground:<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Africa Day or Africa Freedom Day, marked annually on the 25th of May offers the continent the opportunity to reflect on its history, liberation struggle, economic and social development and a celebration of its rich and diverse culture. We will also unpack the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which are key to Africa\u2019s growth and stability.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, United States of America, May 24, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; Media is invited to attend celebrations to mark Africa Day by the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in Pretoria, on Wednesday, May 25, 2016 \u00a0 This years\u2019theme is \u201cCelebrating Africa\u201d \u2013 a valiant celebration of Africa, its history and prosperous future. We [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-70469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","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\/70469","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=70469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}