{"id":135718,"date":"2016-10-18T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/135718\/honouring-a-struggle-icon-through-song\/"},"modified":"2016-10-18T15:40:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T13:40:22","slug":"honouring-a-struggle-icon-through-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/10\/18\/honouring-a-struggle-icon-through-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Honouring a struggle icon through song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The metro has dedicated the month of October to celebrating late struggle icon OR Tambo.<\/p>\n<p>One of the highlights of the celebration will be the Ekurhuleni International Choral Music Excellence Competitions, hosted by local company, Say a Word.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud to announce that we will be assisted by one of the most prominent conductors in the country, Monty Manamela,\u201d said Laura Mwanyama, from Say a Word.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this month we are commemorating the life and times of OR Tambo who was well known for his love and appreciation of the music.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The competitions, which include the singing talents of an array of choirs from across the metro, will take place in the Thokoza Auditorium, on Saturday, October 22.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the event contact Mwanyama on 078 150 4768.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you might also be interested in reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/135698\/remembering-or-tambo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Remembering OR Tambo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/135624\/metro-to-host-open-tender-process-meeting\/\">Metro to host open tender process meeting<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/135139\/businesses-urged-to-adhere-to-water-restrictions\/\">Businesses urged to adhere to water restrictions<\/a><\/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='9b4da6ba29a5809c20a61fc6ee2dbc83'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ekurhuleni International Choral Music Excellence competitions set to honour OR Tambo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":135893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004,1659],"class_list":["post-135718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-or-tambo"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","OR Tambo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135718","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}