{"id":45115,"date":"2016-03-17T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/45115\/4sai-battalion-hosts-medal-parade\/"},"modified":"2016-03-16T15:23:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T13:23:10","slug":"4sai-battalion-hosts-medal-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/03\/17\/4sai-battalion-hosts-medal-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: 4SAI Battalion hosts medal parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ceremony was attended by Mayor Mike Masina and the military\u2019s choir ended the ceremony with beautiful harmonies.<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers of the 4SAI Battalion will be leaving for Port St. Johns in the Eastern Cape on 1 April 2016 for the last training before deployment to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the last training, the troops will reside in Bloemfontein for three weeks from where they will be flying to the DRC come June,\u201d says spokesperson, Major Leon Daniels.<\/p>\n<p>We congratulate our troops and pray for their safe return.<\/p>\n<p>The following soldiers from the 4SAI BN received Good Service Medals:<\/p>\n<p>Major L. Daniels<\/p>\n<p>Major T.R. Mhlanga<\/p>\n<p>Major D.P. Mlombo<\/p>\n<p>Major N.M. Mathe<\/p>\n<p>Warrant Officer Two V.V. Links<\/p>\n<p>Staff Sergeant T.F. Limela<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant M.P. Ncube<\/p>\n<p>Corporal K.S. Peu<\/p>\n<p>Corporal M.P. Mpe<\/p>\n<p>Corporal M.P. Selepe<\/p>\n<p>Lance Corporal P.L. Mlondo<\/p>\n<p>Lance Corporal M.Z. Dube<\/p>\n<p>Lance Corporal M.I. Makofane<\/p>\n<p>Lance Corporal M. Mkwanyana<\/p>\n<p>Lance Corporal M.J. Tema<\/p>\n<p>Rifleman C.S Maila<\/p>\n<p>Rifleman V.E. Ndabeni<\/p>\n<p>Rifleman C.M.N. Cele<\/p>\n<p>The following soldiers from the 4SAI BN received General Service Medals:<\/p>\n<p>Lance Corporal S.J. Mokonyane<\/p>\n<p>Lance Corporal R.F. Motinyane<\/p>\n<p>Lance Corporal S.T. Mailula<\/p>\n<p>Lance Corporal K.L. Mmethi<\/p>\n<p>Rifleman G. Sedibane<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MFW6RfLoRCE\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1TNUvSF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the 4SAI Battalion held a farewell and medal parade for their brave and hardworking soldiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":45116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Annie van Zyl","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45115","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=45115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}