{"id":414006,"date":"2011-05-02T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T08:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/02\/freedom-day-celebrated-in-style\/"},"modified":"2011-05-02T08:30:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T08:30:31","slug":"freedom-day-celebrated-in-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/02\/freedom-day-celebrated-in-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Day Celebrated in Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"14.4063590539\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nairobistar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nairobi Star<\/a> (Nairobi)<\/p>\n<p>James Murua<\/p>\n<p>29 April 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>opinion<\/p>\n<p>April 27 is a very special day if you happen to be a South African. This is the day in 1994 when the country voted in the first all race election won by former prisoner-turned-President Nelson Mandela. With the country in a new path, the day was dubbed Freedom Day to signify the end of Apartheid.<\/p>\n<p>South Africans take this day very seriously and the South African High Commission in Kenya was not left behind. They hosted an exclusive dinner at the Intercontinental Hotel in Nairobi with guests being welcomed by South African High Commissioner NN Ntshinga. The guest of honour was House Speaker Kenneth Marende.<\/p>\n<p>The performances on the evening were an eclectic mix with popular The Villagers Band representing Kenya and the innovative Soweto Jazz Ensemble representing South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Visit link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105020289.html\" title=\"Freedom Day Celebrated in Style\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Freedom Day Celebrated in Style<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nairobi Star (Nairobi) James Murua 29 April 2011 opinion April 27 is a very special day if you happen to be a South African. This is the day in 1994 when the country voted in the first all race election won by former prisoner-turned-President Nelson Mandela. With the country in a new path, the day was dubbed Freedom Day to signify the end of Apartheid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":410545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-414006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Freedom Day Celebrated in Style - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/02\/freedom-day-celebrated-in-style\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Freedom Day Celebrated in Style - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nairobi Star (Nairobi) James Murua 29 April 2011 opinion April 27 is a very special day if you happen to be a South African. 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