{"id":305538,"date":"2018-11-15T06:28:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T06:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305538"},"modified":"2018-11-15T06:28:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T06:28:58","slug":"south-african-president-cyril-ramaphosa-to-be-republic-day-2019-chief-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/south-african-president-cyril-ramaphosa-to-be-republic-day-2019-chief-guest\/","title":{"rendered":"South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to be Republic Day 2019 Chief Guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/south-african-president-cyril-ramaphosa-to-be-republic-day-2019-chief-guest\/cyril\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-305539\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-305539 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cyril-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/cyril-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/cyril-534x462.jpg 534w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/cyril-483x420.jpg 483w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/cyril.jpg 587w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has accepted the invitation to be the chief guest at the Republic Day event next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Cyril Ramaphosa, 65, became South Africa\u2019s president this year, succeeding Jacob Zuma.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">His acceptance comes after the US President Donald Trump turned down the invitation citing scheduling constraints.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;President Trump was honoured by Modi&#8217;s invitation to be a Chief Guest of India&#8217;s Republic Day on January 26, 2019 but is unable to participate due to scheduling constraints,&#8221; a White House spokesperson had said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ramphosa is a staunch follower of Mahatma Gandhi. In April, he led around 5,000 people at the annual \u2018Gandhi Walk\u2019 event in Lenasia near Johannesburg, in an attempt to promote community awareness and fitness..\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has accepted the invitation to be the chief guest at the Republic Day event next year. Cyril Ramaphosa, 65, became South Africa\u2019s president this year, succeeding Jacob Zuma. His acceptance comes after the US President Donald Trump turned down the invitation citing scheduling constraints. &#8220;President Trump was honoured by Modi&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":305539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[9684,369,2000],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305540,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305538\/revisions\/305540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}