{"id":2154,"date":"2025-11-21T17:10:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dnpconsulting.co.za\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:10:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:10:26","slug":"my-sad-experience-of-masakhane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/za.dnpconsulting.co.za\/index.php\/2025\/11\/21\/my-sad-experience-of-masakhane\/","title":{"rendered":"MY SAD EXPERIENCE OF MASAKHANE"},"content":{"rendered":"Some time ago I was a whatsapp group member of Masakhane Organization which operates in some of the Suburbs in Bloemfontein. In that time the &#8220;to be&#8221; organization was at the stage of drafting a constitution and we were expected to contribute towards that important step.<br \/>I suggested that the easy way would be to look into the constitutions of bodies of similar intent and take out what would suit us. This was my demise.<br \/>The next thing that happened was a voice note from a prominent lady in the group. I cannot say now what she said but I know that she was spewing vitriol, asking who I thought I was. I replied that I would reply and this was because I had to take some time to organize myself and not reply out of emotion. Immediately after that I was blocked.<br \/>In writing as I do I need to caution such organizations ate made in order to bring people who share certain values and experiences together and should not be a platform to settle scores and (I dare say) gossip.<br \/>I am a proud citizen of Herschel District (as it used to be. If one looks at the posts that I have contributed to this platform one would attest to this and I will not be deterred.   MASAKHANE please","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I was a whatsapp group member of Masakhane Organization which operates in some of the Suburbs in Bloemfontein. In that time the &#8220;to be&#8221; organization was at the stage of drafting a constitution and we were expected to contribute towards that important step.I suggested that the easy way would be to look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/za.dnpconsulting.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/za.dnpconsulting.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/za.dnpconsulting.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/za.dnpconsulting.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/za.dnpconsulting.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/za.dnpconsulting.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/za.dnpconsulting.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/za.dnpconsulting.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/za.dnpconsulting.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}