During the era of Apartheid there used to be regular
\ndemonstrations outside of the South African embassy –
\nSouth Africa House.<\/p>\n
If my old friend & comrade Gwyn could not make any of
\nthese demonstrations, then she would phone up the
\nembassy, and ask to talk with the military attache.<\/p>\n
Once connected on the phone she would apologise for not
\nbeing able to attend the demonstration which was going on
\noutside of the building at the time.<\/p>\n
On many occasions all she would ever hear would be a
\ngrunt, or something muttered, & then the phone being
\nslammed done.<\/p>\n
A fine example of a diplomate at work, & an inspiration to us
\nall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
During the era of Apartheid there used to be regular demonstrations outside of the South African embassy – South Africa House. If my old friend & comrade Gwyn could not make any of these demonstrations, then she would phone up the embassy, and ask to talk with the military attache. Once connected on the phone … Continue reading Just a phone call to S.A.House.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}