{"id":3752,"date":"2013-01-24T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T07:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2013-01-24T07:17:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T07:17:00","slug":"zuma-praises-charlize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3752","title":{"rendered":"Zuma praises Charlize"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3753\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/charlisezuma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3753\" title=\"charlisezuma\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/charlisezuma.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlize Theron meets the President and his wife<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Jacob Zuma congratulated South African-born actress Charlize Theron on Wednesday for scooping the World Economic Forum&#8217;s crystal award for her humanitarian work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are proud of our Charlize,\u201d Zuma said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cShe has succeeded in an extremely competitive environment, and is a visible and hardworking ambassador for her country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project finances programs designed to prevent the spread of HIV among young Africans, particularly in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programs include mobile health services in an impoverished region of South Africa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zuma said he met Theron on the sidelines of the conference in Switzerland on Wednesday, and she briefed him on her work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI assured her that South Africans love her and wish her all the best,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe wish her success in every venture she undertakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The award was presented to her on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year, the award went to South African singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka, who was recognised for \u201cusing her art to improve the state of the world\u201d. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Jacob Zuma congratulated South African-born actress Charlize Theron on Wednesday for scooping the World Economic Forum&#8217;s crystal award for her humanitarian work. \u201cWe are proud of our Charlize,\u201d Zuma said in a statement. \u201cShe has succeeded in an extremely competitive environment, and is a visible and hardworking ambassador for her country.\u201d The Charlize Theron &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3752\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zuma praises Charlize&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2448,2450,2449,166,2451,1020],"class_list":["post-3752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-charlize-theron","tag-davos","tag-hollywpod","tag-jacob-zuma","tag-wef","tag-world-economic-forum"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/charlisezuma.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752","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=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3755,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions\/3755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}