{"id":109839,"date":"2020-02-17T12:59:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T10:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=109839"},"modified":"2020-02-17T12:59:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T10:59:22","slug":"stukkie-geskiedenis-keer-terug-na-ou-witkerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/02\/17\/stukkie-geskiedenis-keer-terug-na-ou-witkerk\/","title":{"rendered":"Stukkie geskiedenis keer terug na ou Witkerk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Die bekroonde foto deur<i>\u00a0Middelburg Observer<\/i>\u00a0redakteur, Tobie van den Bergh, is in die vroe\u00eb negentigerjare geneem in die midde van politieke onrus, toe die ANC hulle eerste vergadering gehou het in die stadsaal, wat reg oorkant die Witkerk was. &#8216;n Groep regsgesinde inwoners het die sprekers met geweld uit die stadsaal gegooi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;n Verbruikersboikot, wat die dorp lamgel\u00ea het en onluste het gevolg.<\/p>\n<p>Milit\u00eare troepe moes oor die dorp waak, en die foto wys &#8216;n soldaat met sy R1 geweer in die hand, wat oor die Witkerk uitkyk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;n Week later het die president van die Reserwebank, Tito Mboweni, die eerste ANC spreker geword wat in die stadsaal opgetree het.<\/p>\n<p>Ds. Anton Kemp en dr Kobus Terblanch\u00e9 het die skenking ontvang, en die foto sal deel raak van die Witkerk se historiese samestelling.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022&#8217;n Vorige redakteur van die\u00a0<i>Middelburg Observer<\/i>, Jack Frewin, het &#8216;n ikoniese foto van die Witkerk geneem, wat later in die Suid-Afrikaanse Ambassade in Londen gepryk het.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die eeue oue Witkerk, wat as historiese baken deur die dorp se inwoners gekoester word, het &#8216;n geskiedkundige foto ontvang, wat &#8216;n bydrae lewer tot Middelburg se fassinerende storie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":109842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[10367,18313,10450,10366,23381,23379,23382,23380],"class_list":["post-109839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-betroubare-nuus","tag-middelburg-geskiedenis","tag-middelburg-nuus","tag-plaaslike-nuus","tag-soldaat-waak-oor-dorp","tag-stukkie-geskiedenis-keer-terug-na-witkerk","tag-tobie-van-den-bergh-skenk-foto-aan-witkerk","tag-witkerk-ontvang-bekroonde-foto"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["betroubare nuus","middelburg geskiedenis","middelburg nuus","plaaslike nuus","soldaat waak oor dorp","stukkie geskiedenis keer terug na witkerk","tobie van den bergh skenk foto aan witkerk","witkerk ontvang bekroonde foto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}