{"id":50434,"date":"2013-12-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/50434\/the-country-mourns-orsouth-africa-unit-to-mourn-mandela\/"},"modified":"2013-12-11T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T08:00:19","slug":"the-country-mourns-orsouth-africa-unit-to-mourn-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/12\/11\/the-country-mourns-orsouth-africa-unit-to-mourn-mandela\/","title":{"rendered":"The country mourns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The residents of the metro will be given the opportunity to join the world in mourning and honouring the world icon, former President Nelson Mandela at various memorial parks across the metro.<\/p>\n<p>Following 95-year-old Mandela&#8217;s passing on Thursday evening, December 5, the metro has activated memorial parks, fitted with big screens, to enable all local citizens to unite and witness the funeral services of Madiba.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Mandela&#8217;s state funeral is confirmed to take place on Sunday, December 15.<\/p>\n<p>Residents are encouraged to gather in unity at the various memorial parks to share in the sadness felt by the loss of this African jewel, while commemorating the legacy and life of the transformational leader.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Residents can go to the following memorial parks to mourn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Makhulong Stadium &#8211; Tembisa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Dries Niemand Park &#8211; Kempton Park<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Sinaba Stadium &#8211; Daveyton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Buluthando Park -KwaThema<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Tsakane stadium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Kwanele Park &#8211; Katlehong<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Katlehong stadium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Germiston Lake<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the days following Mandela&#8217;s death and leading to the funeral, the metro has opened the Germiston and Kempton Park Community halls to allow residents a chance to pray; lay wreathes and sign books of condolences in memory of the fallen leader.<\/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='ac63ecc6419544f4db7d546161587052'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa unit to mourn Mandela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":50214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,979,1246,2435,2436,1002,2434,1004],"class_list":["post-50434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-madiba","tag-memorial","tag-memorial-park","tag-metro","tag-mourn","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","madiba","memorial","memorial park","metro","mourn","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50434","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=50434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}