{"id":158,"date":"2007-04-27T07:26:58","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T05:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2007-04-27T07:27:04","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T05:27:04","slug":"congratulations-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/congratulations-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (27 April) is&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.info.gov.za\/events\/2007\/freedomday.htm\">Freedom Day<\/a> here in South Africa, which for those that does not know, is the 13th birthday of when South Africa become a total free and democratic society. As a fairly old South African from the pre-1994 days, I must say that I was not sure what this would mean to me.&nbsp; Now 13 years on I know that the fears I had, came to nothing.&nbsp; We now have a society where white, black, coloured or whatever can compete on a equal footing with one another.&nbsp; Yes, we as old white male South Africans had to endure some difficulties but that just meant that we had to look at things from a different perspective and use different opportunities that came our way.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure that if we in South Africa did not change all that years ago, we would have been much worse off.&nbsp; I for one am a much more rounded person and has been exposed to so many other cultures and experiences which did enrich my life.<\/p>\n<p>Things are not perfect but that just means that we must work harder at it.&nbsp; Be more tolerable and accept that there are other views, cultures and opinions than your own.<\/p>\n<p>To my fellow South Africans, celebrate this day and embrace the wonderful future that we as South African can have.&nbsp; Have a wonderful celebratory day and long weekend. And to top it off we can celebrate the day further with the <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/27dinner.pbwiki.com\/CapeTown\">27dinner<\/a> tonight here in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/freedom%20day\" rel=\"tag\">freedom day<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/south%20africa\" rel=\"tag\">south africa<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/celebration\" rel=\"tag\">celebration<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/27dinner\" rel=\"tag\">27dinner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (27 April) is&nbsp; Freedom Day here in South Africa, which for those that does not know, is the 13th birthday of when South Africa become a total free and democratic society. As a fairly old South African from the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/congratulations-south-africa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Congratulations South Africa<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}