{"id":34081,"date":"2023-02-08T00:45:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T00:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=34081"},"modified":"2023-02-08T00:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T00:45:12","slug":"victim-nation-op-ed-is-it-still-yesterday-in-south-africa-the-meaning-if-anything-of-being-south-african-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=34081","title":{"rendered":"VICTIM NATION OP-ED: Is it still yesterday in South Africa? The meaning \u2013 if anything \u2013 of being South African today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Europeans first settled at the southern tip of Africa, we appear to have generated more troublesome history than we can consume or digest. As a result, our past has not been laid to rest, which explains the sound and fury when disputes erupt in the present&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2022-12-05-is-it-still-yesterday-in-south-africa-the-meaning-of-being-s-african\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Europeans first settled at the southern tip of Africa, we appear to have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/34081-victim-nation-op-ed-is-it-still-yesterday-in-south-africa-the-meaning-if-anything-of-being-south-african-today.jpg",1280,853,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/34081-victim-nation-op-ed-is-it-still-yesterday-in-south-africa-the-meaning-if-anything-of-being-south-african-today-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/34081-victim-nation-op-ed-is-it-still-yesterday-in-south-africa-the-meaning-if-anything-of-being-south-african-today-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/34081-victim-nation-op-ed-is-it-still-yesterday-in-south-africa-the-meaning-if-anything-of-being-south-african-today-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/34081-victim-nation-op-ed-is-it-still-yesterday-in-south-africa-the-meaning-if-anything-of-being-south-african-today-1024x682.jpg",640,426,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/34081-victim-nation-op-ed-is-it-still-yesterday-in-south-africa-the-meaning-if-anything-of-being-south-african-today.jpg",1280,853,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/34081-victim-nation-op-ed-is-it-still-yesterday-in-south-africa-the-meaning-if-anything-of-being-south-african-today.jpg",1280,853,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/34081-victim-nation-op-ed-is-it-still-yesterday-in-south-africa-the-meaning-if-anything-of-being-south-african-today-1024x682.jpg",1024,682,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/34081-victim-nation-op-ed-is-it-still-yesterday-in-south-africa-the-meaning-if-anything-of-being-south-african-today-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/34081-victim-nation-op-ed-is-it-still-yesterday-in-south-africa-the-meaning-if-anything-of-being-south-african-today-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}