{"id":6198,"date":"2013-06-26T17:14:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T17:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6198"},"modified":"2013-06-26T17:33:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T17:33:03","slug":"zuma-sings-bring-me-my-machine-gun-for-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6198","title":{"rendered":"Zuma sings &#8216;Bring me my machine gun&#8217; for Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6199\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6199\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/zuma_umshini_wam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6199\" alt=\"President Jacob Zuma singing 'Mshini Wami'\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/zuma_umshini_wam-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/zuma_umshini_wam-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/zuma_umshini_wam.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Jacob Zuma singing &#8216;Mshini Wami&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former president Nelson Mandela was still in a critical condition in hospital on Wednesday afternoon, President Jacob Zuma said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;As he remains in a critical condition in hospital we must keep him and the family in our thoughts and prayers every minute,&#8221; he said to groans of despair from the audience at the National Education, Health and Allied Workers&#8217; Union (Nehawu) conference in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zuma led a song from the anti-apartheid struggle about Mandela and Oliver Tambo taking up arms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He then sang &#8220;Awulethu&#8217; Mshini Wami&#8221; with delegates joining him. After that he had a bite of cake on the stage and left. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president Nelson Mandela was still in a critical condition in hospital on Wednesday afternoon, President Jacob Zuma said. &#8220;As he remains in a critical condition in hospital we must keep him and the family in our thoughts and prayers every minute,&#8221; he said to groans of despair from the audience at the National Education, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6198\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zuma sings &#8216;Bring me my machine gun&#8217; for Mandela&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3507,166,327,3506],"class_list":["post-6198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-bring-me-my-machine-gund","tag-jacob-zuma","tag-mandela","tag-mshini-wami"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/zuma_umshini_wam.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198","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=6198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6201,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions\/6201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}