{"id":11230,"date":"2013-10-22T07:22:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T07:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11230"},"modified":"2013-10-22T07:22:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T07:22:52","slug":"winnie-joins-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11230","title":{"rendered":"Winnie joins Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11231\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/winniemurder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11231\" alt=\"Winnie Mandela\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/winniemurder.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winnie Mandela<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Winnie Madikizela-Mandela joined Twitter in October tweeting that she &#8220;understood the value of social media&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Madikizela-Mandela, who was married to former South African president Nelson Mandela and was a prominent voice in the struggle for the liberation of SA, is seen as an inspiration for women in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter users have welcomed her to the social media platform with word of thanks and heart felt massages which praised &#8220;the mother of the nation&#8221; for her grasp of black youth issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">TV presenter Chriselda Lewis gushed in a tweet: &#8220;The founder of Twitter must send a special message to @winniemandela thanking her for joining. This is historic!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year she released a book titled 491 Days, Prisoner number 1323\/69: a diary she wrote while in solitary confinement in 1969, having been charged under the Terrorism Act.<\/p>\n<p>Winnie has been also implicated in a number of scandals including involvement in the murder of a young activist called Stompie Sepei, stemming back to her days with the Mandela United Football Club.<\/p>\n<p>More recently upon the discovery of two bodies of young men, said to have been part of uMkhonto we Sizwe, again her involvement with the case was questioned.<\/p>\n<p>However she has remained an inspiration to many South Africans and her presence on Twitter has been received warmly. &#8211; eNCA<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnie Madikizela-Mandela joined Twitter in October tweeting that she &#8220;understood the value of social media&#8221;. Madikizela-Mandela, who was married to former South African president Nelson Mandela and was a prominent voice in the struggle for the liberation of SA, is seen as an inspiration for women in the country. Twitter users have welcomed her to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11230\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Winnie joins Twitter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[7053,4757,7054,7052,7051,429,2964,4756],"class_list":["post-11230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-black-youth-issues","tag-mandela-united-football-club","tag-stompie-sepei","tag-struggle-for-the-liberation","tag-the-value-of-social-media","tag-twitter","tag-umkhonto-we-sizwe","tag-winnie-madikizela-mandela"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/winniemurder.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11232,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11230\/revisions\/11232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}