{"id":73053,"date":"2014-11-08T13:06:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T11:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/73053\/meyiwa-nominated-top-africa-award\/"},"modified":"2014-11-08T13:06:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T11:06:54","slug":"meyiwa-nominated-top-africa-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/11\/08\/meyiwa-nominated-top-africa-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Meyiwa nominated for top Africa award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The late Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates rising star, <a href=\"http:\/\/boksburgadvertiser.co.za\/213061\/5-marriage-mistakes-killed-senzo-meyiwa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Senzo Meyiwa<\/a>, shot dead in Vosloorus on October 26, was among 20 names nominated for African Player of the Year for those who play in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old made an incredible 51 out of a possible 53 appearances for Pirates during the 2013\/14 season.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/citizen.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Citizen<\/a>, &#8220;Also nominated for the award are Kaizer Chiefs player Bernard Parker and AmaZulu\u2019s Bongani Ndulula.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bafana player Thulani Serero, who plies his trade for club side Ajax Amsterdam in the Netherlands, was one of 25 players nominated for the overall African Player of the Year award.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The awards will be held in Lagos, Nigeria, on January 8.<\/p>\n<p>Also Read:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boksburgadvertiser.co.za\/213342\/senzo-meyiwa-laid-rest\/\" target=\"_blank\">Senzo Meyiwa laid to rest <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boksburgadvertiser.co.za\/212656\/watch-senzo-meyiwa-tribute-rip\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch: Senzo Meyiwa tribute \u2013 RIP<\/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='f27b8140ac67183858f2250b766339d3'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates captain Senzo Meyiwa was posthumously nominated for African Player of the Year based in Africa on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":73054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73053","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}