{"id":739,"date":"2010-12-11T07:12:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T14:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=739"},"modified":"2016-12-11T09:27:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T16:27:59","slug":"blacken-our-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=739","title":{"rendered":"Blacken our name"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 611px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/csstudio.co.za\/images\/Gugulethu1.jpg\" width=\"601\" height=\"337\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gugulethu<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Blacken our name<\/p>\n<p>Blacken our name<br \/>\nwith your doom and gloom<br \/>\nwhether you be a visitor<br \/>\nfrom abroad or a local<br \/>\nfrom a village fenced-in<\/p>\n<p>Blacken our name<br \/>\ndarken our doorstep<br \/>\nwith tales of murder<br \/>\nand mayhem too<\/p>\n<p>Blacken our name<br \/>\ncall us the black sheep<br \/>\nof the developing world<br \/>\nout in darkest Africa<\/p>\n<p>Blacken our name<br \/>\nlegendary publicist<br \/>\n(you are said to be)<br \/>\namid the infamous<\/p>\n<p>Blacken our name<br \/>\nspin-doctoring away<br \/>\nin your own image<br \/>\nfor your clientele<\/p>\n<p>Blacken our name<br \/>\nit is business as usual<br \/>\nfor those who put up<br \/>\nwith daily abuses<br \/>\ntourists or no tourists<\/p>\n<p>Blacken our name<br \/>\nall our Gugulethus<br \/>\nall our Hanover Parks<br \/>\nall our Manenbergs<br \/>\nand our Khayelitshas too<\/p>\n<p>Your business is as usual<br \/>\nas is the convenient truth<br \/>\nof our living out here<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccused hired sultan of spin\u201d we are told, in the aftermath of accusations that husband-honeymooner Shrien Dewani paid for his wife to be murdered (Argus, Wed,\u00a0Dec 8 2010).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/csstudio.co.za\/Gugulethu.html#panel-3\">Carin Smuts Studio<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blacken our name Blacken our name with your doom and gloom whether you be a visitor from abroad or a local from a village fenced-in Blacken our name darken our doorstep with tales of murder and mayhem too Blacken our name call us the black sheep of the developing world out in darkest Africa Blacken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[731,5162,742,5150,5165,83,732],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-david-kapp","tag-gugulethu","tag-hanover-park","tag-khayelitsha","tag-manenberg","tag-south-africa","tag-the-very-unfortunate","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20731,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/20731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}