{"id":5042,"date":"2015-07-01T15:37:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T13:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=5042"},"modified":"2015-07-01T15:39:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T13:39:12","slug":"statistician-general-mr-pali-lehohla-on-60-years-of-the-freedom-charter-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=5042","title":{"rendered":"Statistician-General Mr Pali Lehohla on 60 years of The Freedom Charter celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 25 and 26 June 1955, three thousand delegates gathered at Kliptown to adopt the Freedom Charter, a vision for a united, non-racial and democratic South Africa. The Congress of the People constituted the most representative gathering in the history of South Africa, and included workers, peasants, intellectuals, women, youth and students of all races and colours<a title=\"\" href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/KoketsoM\/Documents\/GroupWise\/CELEBRATING%20THE%20FREEDOM%20CHARTER.docx#_edn1\">[i]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In this interview with SABC news at Kliptown, the Statistician-General for South Africa, Mr Pali Lehohla, discusses what meaning the Freedom Charter, which was signed 60 years ago, brings to South Africa and the world.<\/p>\n<div>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=em-subs_digest&amp;v=R1hZwU8B-Gw&amp;app=desktop\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>for full interview<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/KoketsoM\/Documents\/GroupWise\/CELEBRATING%20THE%20FREEDOM%20CHARTER.docx#_ednref1\">[i]<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahistory.org.za\/article\/congress-people-and-freedom-charter\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sahistory.org.za\/article\/congress-people-and-freedom-charter<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 25 and 26 June 1955, three thousand delegates gathered at Kliptown to adopt the Freedom Charter, a vision for a united, non-racial and democratic South Africa. The Congress of the People constituted the most representative gathering in the history of South Africa, and included workers, peasants, intellectuals, women, youth and students of all races&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=5042\" class=\"btn btn-mini btn-info pull-right\" style=\"margin:10px 30px;\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5044,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions\/5044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}