{"id":181348,"date":"2024-09-26T17:38:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T15:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/south-africa-president-ramaphosa-to-lead-homecoming-ceremony-for-struggle-heroes\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T17:38:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T15:38:37","slug":"south-africa-president-ramaphosa-to-lead-homecoming-ceremony-for-struggle-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/south-africa-president-ramaphosa-to-lead-homecoming-ceremony-for-struggle-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: President Ramaphosa to Lead Homecoming Ceremony for Struggle Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to officiate the repatriation and restitution homecoming ceremony for the remains of South African freedom fighters, who lost their lives in Zambia and Zimbabwe during the apartheid era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The ceremony is expected to be held at the Freedom Park Heritage Site and Museum in Tshwane on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">&#8220;Ahead of addressing the homecoming ceremony on Friday&#8230; President Ramaphosa will lead a wreath-laying procession at the Wall of Names.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">&#8220;The Wall of Names is inscribed with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409260142.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to officiate the repatriation and restitution homecoming ceremony for the remains of South African freedom fighters, who lost their lives in Zambia and Zimbabwe during the apartheid era. The ceremony is expected to be held at the Freedom Park Heritage Site and Museum in Tshwane on Friday. &#8220;Ahead of addressing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":181349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00111054:571e4cae18663939d3b388dc0b59cc67:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,6358,9171,7552,7358,257,2450,8878,5069,254,11137,881],"class_list":["post-181348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ceremony","tag-heroes","tag-homecoming","tag-lead","tag-news","tag-president","tag-ramaphosa","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-struggle","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00111054:571e4cae18663939d3b388dc0b59cc67:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}