{"id":8945,"date":"2013-07-08T03:58:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T03:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandans-in-south-africa-celebrate-51st\/"},"modified":"2013-07-14T03:59:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T03:59:47","slug":"rwandans-in-south-africa-celebrate-51st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandans-in-south-africa-celebrate-51st\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandans in South Africa Celebrate 51st Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{As part of the celebration of 51st Anniversary of Rwanda\u2019s Independence and 19th Year of Rwanda\u2019s Liberation, The High Commission of Rwanda organized an event that attracted about 250 Rwandans and  friends of Rwanda living in South Africa.}}<\/p>\n<p>The event was a moment to reflect on the past, to think about the future while enjoying what has so far been achieved in Rwanda. <\/p>\n<p>In his speech to the gathered audience, The High Commissioner Vincent Karega highlighted Rwanda\u2019s achievement and its important role in the African agenda.  <\/p>\n<p>The High Commissioner stressed the importance of Pan Africanism and Africa Renaissance. <\/p>\n<p>He called upon Rwandans and Africans to take up their own destiny.  \u201cNo country in Africa can go very far alone if the continent lags behind.\u201d He said. <\/p>\n<p>The speech was followed by Q&#038;A in which questions were raised on the cessation clause, diaspora representation in the Rwandan parliament. <\/p>\n<p>A projection on Rwanda\u2019s achievements in key sectors such as Agriculture, Infrastructure, education, health, tourism, ICT and urban development was shared with those who have been away from Rwanda for years.<\/p>\n<p>The event was also marked by performances of Jean Roger Munezero, Angel Uwamahoro as well as a special cultural troop composed of children living in South Africa. <\/p>\n<p>The culture troop has been a recent initiative meant to promote Rwanda\u2019s culture in South Africa. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3197 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img_3771.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3198 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img_3686.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{As part of the celebration of 51st Anniversary of Rwanda\u2019s Independence and 19th Year of Rwanda\u2019s Liberation, The High Commission of Rwanda organized an event that attracted about 250 Rwandans and friends of Rwanda living in South Africa.}} The event was a moment to reflect on the past, to think about the future while enjoying [&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":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-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":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-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\/8945","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=8945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8945"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8945"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}