{"id":122542,"date":"2016-05-25T09:43:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T07:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/122542\/on-this-day-in-history-independent-african-states-founded-african-union\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T09:43:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T07:43:15","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-independent-african-states-founded-african-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/05\/25\/on-this-day-in-history-independent-african-states-founded-african-union\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day in history: Independent African states founded African Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Day became the annual commemoration of the day the founding charter for the African Union was signed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In 1991, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.au.int\/\" target=\"_blank\">Organisation for African Unity (OAU)<\/a> established the African Economic Community, and in 2002 the OAU\u00a0established its own successor, the African Union. Africa Day celebrates the formation of these organisations.<\/p>\n<p>The name and date of Africa Day has been retained as a celebration of African unity. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cBuilding a better Africa and a better world\u201d.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>President Jacob Zuma is to host the South African\u00a02016 Africa Day\u00a0celebration\u00a0at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 theme for Africa Day was &#8216;Africa and the Diaspora&#8217; and marked a transition from an African celebration to worldwide celebrations. \u00a0Africa Day is observed as a public holiday in six African countries, which are; Ghana, Mali, Namibia, Zambia, Lesotho and Zimbabwe.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/FozisS3LHcI' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='5b8dbd2fdcf4d4775a386cfda4d02aa0'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 25 May 1963, 30 of the 32 independent African States signed the founding charter for the African Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7783,"featured_media":122543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[1250,11132,11133,10334,2362],"class_list":["post-122542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-africa","tag-africa-au","tag-african-union","tag-on-this-day","tag-south-africa"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["Africa","Africa AU","African Union","on this day","South Africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}