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Sikwane \u2014 Long before Botswana raised its national flag as an independent nation, communities such as Sikwane were already laying foundations that would shape generations.<\/p>\n
At the heart of that community stood a church.<\/p>\n
For generations, the Dutch Reformed Church in Sikwane was more than a place of Sunday worship. Its doors opened to children seeking education, women learning sewing and homecraft, boys acquiring woodwork and other practical skills, and adults who had missed formal schooling being…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Sikwane \u2014 Long before Botswana raised its national flag as an independent nation, communities such as Sikwane were already laying foundations that would shape generations. At the heart of that community stood a church. For generations, the Dutch Reformed Church in Sikwane was more than a place of Sunday worship. Its doors opened to children […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":246519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,12942,6581,1632,8406,11879,257,5188,55600,254],"class_list":["post-246518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-built","tag-church","tag-education","tag-faith","tag-legacy","tag-news","tag-service","tag-sikwane","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246518","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=246518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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