{"id":7241,"date":"2012-02-13T08:36:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T08:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=7241"},"modified":"2012-02-13T08:36:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T08:36:41","slug":"nelson-mandela-banknotes-to-be-issued-by-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/13\/nelson-mandela-banknotes-to-be-issued-by-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Mandela banknotes to be issued by South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-02-12-01-07-39-13.-mandela.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-02-12-01-07-39-13.-mandela.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2012-02-12-01-07-39-13. mandela\" width=\"280\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7247\" \/><\/a>South Africa is to issue a complete set of banknotes bearing the image of its first black president, Nelson Mandela.<br \/>\nMr Mandela, now 93, was released from prison on 11 February 1990 after 27 years in prison.<br \/>\nPresident Jacob Zuma said the banknotes were a \u201chumble gesture\u201d to express South Africa\u2019s \u201cdeep gratitude\u201d.<br \/>\nMr Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for his campaign against white minority rule (apartheid). He was elected president the following year.<br \/>\nKnown affectionately by his clan name \u201cMadiba\u201d, he has now retired from public life.<br \/>\nSpeaking at the central bank in Pretoria, President Jacob Zuma called Mr Mandela\u2019s release \u201cthe beginning of a new era of hope\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cWith this humble gesture, we are expressing our deep gratitude as the South African people, to a life spent in service of the people of this country and in the cause of humanity worldwide,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nAdvance notice of the news conference at the central bank had briefly rattled the markets, jittery about the state of South Africa\u2019s economy.<br \/>\nNo date for the release of the new notes has yet been announced. Production has already begun, but the latest edition of the currency will only be distributed towards the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa is to issue a complete set of banknotes bearing the image of its first black president, Nelson Mandela. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[811,1525,335,1572,1573,1574,1520,1498],"class_list":["post-7241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-cash","tag-mandela","tag-money","tag-nelson","tag-notes","tag-rand","tag-sa","tag-zuma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}