{"id":1500,"date":"2012-01-07T15:04:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T15:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-in-south-africa-for-anc-centenary\/"},"modified":"2012-01-07T17:39:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T17:39:43","slug":"kagame-in-south-africa-for-anc-centenary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-in-south-africa-for-anc-centenary\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame in South Africa for ANC Centenary Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{President Paul Kagame has arrived in South Africa to attend celebrations to mark the centenary of South Africa&#8217;s ruling African National Congress that begun with a golf tournament.}}<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1184 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bigs.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>More than 100,000 people are expected over the weekend in the central city of Bloemfontein.<\/p>\n<p>Other events include a candle-lit vigil at the church where the ANC was formed and a major political rally on Sunday, the 100th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC was founded to fight white minority rule, which ended in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>ANC party secretary general Gwede Mantashe says Nelson Mandela, who led the party to power after the end of apartheid, will not be attending the ANC celebrations. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is not coming and we are not expecting him to come,&#8221;Gwede told South Africas public radio SABC. &#8220;He is in good spirits but very, very old.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{President Paul Kagame has arrived in South Africa to attend celebrations to mark the centenary of South Africa&#8217;s ruling African National Congress that begun with a golf tournament.}} More than 100,000 people are expected over the weekend in the central city of Bloemfontein. Other events include a candle-lit vigil at the church where the ANC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[277],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-com-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":277,"name":"IGIHE.com Reporter","slug":"igihe-com-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":277,"name":"IGIHE.com Reporter","slug":"igihe-com-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}