{"id":84195,"date":"2018-08-29T12:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T10:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=84195"},"modified":"2018-08-30T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T06:30:09","slug":"who-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/08\/29\/who-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It may be a thing some would rather forget but it should still be respected, as George Santayana once said, \u201cThose who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not too long ago, the\u00a0Middelburg Observer<\/i>\u00a0published an article about the world-renowned local artist, Gerard Sekoto<\/a>. A fun fact is that Middelburg\u2019s library was named in his honour.
\nThe article left many asking the question \u201cWho is this Gerard Sekoto?\u201d, but the truth is, not only his name leaves a furrowed brow.<\/p>\n

As it is with our National Heritage, Middelburg in itself has some fascinating characters and stories. On the one hand, we have African icons like Lilian Ngoyi and John Magagula and on the other, Carolus Trichardt and Gideon Scheepers. These historical characters must be remembered for something, but do you know what for?<\/p>\n

https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/84170\/wie-is\/<\/p>\n

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With that in mind,\u00a0www.mobserver.co.za<\/b>\u00a0has decided to start a new series called \u201cWho is?\u201d.<\/p>\n

The series will comprise of two articles a week, one English and the other Afrikaans, with the objective of informing each other of our legends.
\nThe \u201cWho is\/Wie is?\u201d series will take a historic icon from their respective ethnic group and an informative article will be published on who that icon is.<\/p>\n

So keep an eye out for the \u201cWho is?\u201d series on\u00a0www.mobserver.co.za<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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While South African history may consist of a turbulent nature, it remains a very rich one, to say the least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":84198,"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":[13243,10010,9838,12898,13241,10333,13218,13240,13216,13213,13217,13214,13242],"class_list":["post-84195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-gerard-sekoto","tag-local-news","tag-local-news-network","tag-middelburg-news","tag-new-series","tag-trusted-news","tag-who-is-carolus-trichardt","tag-who-is-series","tag-who-is","tag-wie-is","tag-wie-is-lilian-ngoyi","tag-wie-is-reeks","tag-your-local-news-source"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Gerard Sekoto","local news","local news network","middelburg news","new series","trusted news","Who is Carolus Trichardt","who is series","Who is?","Wie is","Wie is Lilian Ngoyi","Wie is reeks","your local news source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84195","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=84195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}