{"id":1001,"date":"2025-10-09T12:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2025-10-10T08:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:44:45","slug":"mandela-day-celebration-drive-by-valhalla-park-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/mandela-day-celebration-drive-by-valhalla-park-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandela day celebration drive by Valhalla Park Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the whole Nation celebrated Mandela day in their own unique ways, Staff of VPL did their own. We all know Madiba loved children we thought this year we will celebrate him with what he loved the most, which is caring for children.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:46px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1.-Vahalla-Lib-staff-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1.-Vahalla-Lib-staff-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1.-Vahalla-Lib-staff-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1.-Vahalla-Lib-staff-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1.-Vahalla-Lib-staff-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1.-Vahalla-Lib-staff-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Valhalla Park library Staff. Left: Astrid Pillay \u2013 Assistant Librarian, (Yellow Apron): Nonkqaza Nogilana \u2013 Senior Libarian, Vanessa Davids \u2013 Library Aide &amp; Rene Willemse \u2013 Assistant Librarian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2.Our-Munchies-excitedly-waiting-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2.Our-Munchies-excitedly-waiting-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2.Our-Munchies-excitedly-waiting-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2.Our-Munchies-excitedly-waiting-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2.Our-Munchies-excitedly-waiting-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2.Our-Munchies-excitedly-waiting.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Our Munchies excitedly waiting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our feed was strictly for them so that they could have as much as they wanted. The children were delighted to come with their own &#8220;Bakies&#8221; for soup with bread, it was a fulfilling site to see them happy, eating and taking some home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:72px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Nonkqaza Nogilana<br>Senior Librarian <br>Valhalla Park Library<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the whole Nation celebrated Mandela day in their own unique ways, Staff of VPL did their own. We all know Madiba loved children we thought this year we will celebrate him with what he loved the most, which is caring for children. Our feed was strictly for them so that they could have as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":19,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[35,36],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-september-2025","tag-mandela-day","tag-valhalla-park-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelistener.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}