{"id":108457,"date":"2016-01-10T09:22:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T07:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=108457"},"modified":"2016-01-10T09:27:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T07:27:44","slug":"anc-anniversary-cake-spelling-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/108457\/anc-anniversary-cake-spelling-blunder\/","title":{"rendered":"ANC birthday cake spelling blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In excess of 120,000 people were expected to attend the 104th birthday celebrations of the ANC in Rustenburg this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Festivities kicked off on Friday with ANC president Jacob Zuma and other ANC officials cutting the ANC Legacy 104 cake.<\/p>\n<p>An image taken by The Citizen before the ceremony appears to show the birthday cake with an incorrect spelling of the word &#8220;anniversary&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ANCcake.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-108459\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108459\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ANCcake.jpg\" alt=\"ANCcake\" width=\"620\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ANCcake.jpg 620w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ANCcake-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><strong>Image courtesy of The Citizen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Subsequent images of the cake, shortly before it was cut, show that attempts were made to amend the error.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/cakeANC.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-108461\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108461\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/cakeANC.jpg\" alt=\"cakeANC\" width=\"599\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/cakeANC.jpg 599w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/cakeANC-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/cakeANC-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a>President Zuma delivered a statement at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium on Saturday, admitting that this year\u2019s local government elections are going to be one of the toughest for the ANC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ANC is preparing for local government elections. We have done a lot to change the face of local government and improve services. We will be going to our people to hear what else they want us to do to further improve local government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BJ-pkE1DJcY\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the ANC<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/108425\/zuma-admits-elections-will-be-tough-for-anc\/\"><strong>Zuma admits elections will be tough for ANC<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/108331\/zuma-is-not-going-anywhere\/\">Zuma is not going anywhere<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"item-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/103361\/i-am-not-a-liability-zuma\/\">I am not a liability: Zuma<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"item-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/103489\/nothing-can-stop-the-anc-zuma\/\">Nothing can stop the ANC: Zuma<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image taken by The Citizen appears to show the ANC&#8217;s birthday cake with an incorrect spelling of the word &#8220;anniversary&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":96265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1875,26],"class_list":["post-108457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-anc","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108473,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108457\/revisions\/108473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}