{"id":2848,"date":"2019-09-18T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webcubestore.co.za\/susters4life\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2021-06-28T17:44:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T17:44:50","slug":"celebrating-womens-month-2019-in-laingsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webcubestore.co.za\/susters4life\/celebrating-womens-month-2019-in-laingsburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Women&#8217;s Month 2019 in Laingsburg"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2848\" class=\"elementor elementor-2848\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-26b7dfe elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"26b7dfe\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f7ddcbb\" data-id=\"f7ddcbb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1018798 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1018798\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner \"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p>Women\u2019s Month 2019 was extra-special because it coincided with a historic anniversary. This is the 65-year anniversary of the Founding Conference of the Federation of South African Women, which was adopted the 1954 Women\u2019s Charter. This year also sees South Africa enter its 25th year of democracy, a true milestone for our beautiful country.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-8\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner \"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p>The theme for this year\u2019s Women\u2019s Day campaign was \u201cWhat Women Want\u201d, with a focus on identifying the complex issues affecting today\u2019s women of all races and ages.<\/p><p>This year, Suster4Life wanted to pay tribute to our sisters of years gone by \u2013 to the more than 20 000 women who marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956, in protest against the extension of Pass Laws to women.<\/p><p>We spent the morning with the women from our home town, Laingsburg, while also celebrating the 86th birthday of the matriarch in our family, our grandmother. An undertaking was made during the event that Susters4life will start a suster\u2019s sewing circle in Laingsburg. The municipality committed to provide the sewing machines and premises. We look forward to enriching the lives of local women with these valuable lessons!<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women\u2019s Month 2019 was extra-special because it coincided with a historic anniversary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[32,33],"class_list":["post-2848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-laingsburg","tag-womens-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcubestore.co.za\/susters4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcubestore.co.za\/susters4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcubestore.co.za\/susters4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcubestore.co.za\/susters4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcubestore.co.za\/susters4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webcubestore.co.za\/susters4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2971,"href":"https:\/\/webcubestore.co.za\/susters4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions\/2971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcubestore.co.za\/susters4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcubestore.co.za\/susters4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcubestore.co.za\/susters4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcubestore.co.za\/susters4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}