{"id":90615,"date":"2017-04-02T06:34:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T04:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/why-did-mandelas-closest-comrade-end-up-as-tour-guide\/"},"modified":"2017-04-02T06:34:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T04:34:55","slug":"why-did-mandelas-closest-comrade-end-up-as-tour-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/why-did-mandelas-closest-comrade-end-up-as-tour-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Mandela\u2019s closest Comrade end up as tour guide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/why-did-mandelas-closest-comrade-end-up-as-tour-guide\/\">Why did Mandela\u2019s closest Comrade end up as tour guide?<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>In Ahmed Kathrada&#39;s death in Johannesburg at age 87, students of South African history have lost a precious resource person with a unique perspective on one of the world&#39;s great national liberation movements &#8212; how it peaked, then lost its fizz. On February 11, 1990, I was among the willing throng of the world&#39;s journalists, waiting outside Victor Verster prison near Cape Town, waiting for history&#39;s most iconic political prisoner to walk free after 27 years in the Apartheid regime&#39;s captivity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the full article by  here:<\/strong> Johannesburg, South Africa News<\/p>\n<p><strong>Submit and get free press releases here:<\/strong> MyPR Free Press Release.<\/p>\n<p>Click HERE to submit your Johannesburg or Gauteng Press Release.<\/p>\n<p><small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/why-did-mandelas-closest-comrade-end-up-as-tour-guide\/\">MyJHB<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\">MyJHB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Join the fun:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/add-your-event\/\">Add Your event<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mypr.co.za\/submit\">Submit a Press Release<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/directory\/\">Add your listing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did Mandela\u2019s closest Comrade end up as tour guide?: In Ahmed Kathrada&#39;s death in Johannesburg at age 87, students of South African history have lost a precious resource person with a unique perspective on one of the world&#39;s great national liberation movements &#8212; how it peaked, then lost its fizz. On February 11, 1990, [&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":[3332],"tags":[25216,25217,3692,3948,3182],"class_list":{"0":"post-90615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-johannesburg-south-africa","7":"tag-closest","8":"tag-comrade","9":"tag-guide","10":"tag-mandelas","11":"tag-tour","12":"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\/90615","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=90615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}