{"id":244,"date":"2025-07-20T09:52:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T09:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/?p=244"},"modified":"2025-07-20T09:52:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T09:52:54","slug":"fallen-cradock-four-heroes-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/fallen-cradock-four-heroes-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallen Cradock Four heroes remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Cradock<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The wives of the Cradock Four lay wreaths in loving memory and deep sympathy for their husbands, who were brutally murdered under the apartheid regime while fighting for freedom and equality.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">In commemoration of the 40th anniversary, the province gathered in Inxuba Yethemba to honour these fallen heroes, Matthew Goniwe, Fort Calata, Sicelo Mhlauli, and Sparrow Mkhonto, and to reflect on the strides made toward a democratic South Africa.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cradock The wives of the Cradock Four lay wreaths in loving memory and deep sympathy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}