{"id":18752,"date":"2014-09-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/18752\/nm42\/"},"modified":"2014-09-23T09:23:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T07:23:03","slug":"nm42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2014\/09\/23\/nm42\/","title":{"rendered":"Big walk a big success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Walk is an annual fundraiser that takes place at the Themba Senamele stadium in the month of September.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the Big walk is to raise funds and awareness for the Paul Mthimunye Bursary Fund. This year on the 6 of September the Big Walk saw more positive participation.<\/p>\n<p>The Paul Mthimunye Busary Fund was founded in August 2001 by Paul Mthimunye, a former teacher. It\u2019s a partnership between the community and private sector in order to uplift, promote and improve the skills base within the community.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18754\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18754\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/09\/IMG_125_557575723.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18754\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/09\/IMG_125_557575723-423x317.jpg\" alt=\"Ready for the Big Walk: Paul Mthimunye, Shaper Mabuso, Executive Mayor Mike Masina, Inkwekwezi FM presenter Mbuzana Nyathi, Mandla Mnguni, Jacob Komane, Mokgethi Mnguni and Amos Thanjekwayo.\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/09\/IMG_125_557575723-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/09\/IMG_125_557575723-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/09\/IMG_125_557575723.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ready for the Big Walk: Paul Mthimunye, Shaper Mabuso, Executive Mayor Mike Masina, Inkwekwezi FM presenter Mbuzana Nyathi, Mandla Mnguni, Jacob Komane, Mokgethi Mnguni and Amos Thanjekwayo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The event also aims to get the Steve Tshwete community to take interest in education.<\/p>\n<p>The walkers and runners buy tickets to participate in the Big Walk which is 10.6 kilometres.The funds are then used for the Bursary Fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bursary fund has achieved a lot: this year 70 high school learners and 21 tertiary students are being funded, 29 tertiary students have completed their studies with 25 students already employed,\u201d Mr Mthimunye said.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Big Walk was bigger than ever with more then 2200 people participating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community members, walkers, runners and even the Mayor participated in the annual Big Walk for the Paul Mthimunye Bursary fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":18753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Naledi Malekane","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2704,2681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18752","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}