{"id":197,"date":"2017-09-28T12:41:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T12:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/?p=197"},"modified":"2018-12-01T15:02:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T15:02:05","slug":"mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/2017\/09\/28\/mandela\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #000000\"> Honoris Causa<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">NELSON MANDELA was bestowed a degree &#8220;Honoris Causa&#8221; by Queen&#8217;s University Belfast in July 2008 &#8220;for distinction in public service&#8221;. Because Mandela not well, he could not attend the ceremony in Belfast. A Queen&#8217;s representative flew to South Africa to hand him the degree while he, on his side, recorded a message which was broadcasted at the ceremony in Belfast. Details below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is a picture of the handing of his degree<br \/>\nby Anthony O&#8217;Reilly in South Africa:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/09\/Mandela-QUB.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-204\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/09\/Mandela-QUB.png\" alt=\"Mandela QUB\" width=\"133\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is Mandela&#8217;s acceptance speech &#8211; video recorded and projected on the day in Belfast (from minute 3,25):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AZOt3kLdL3g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=209&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is what the <em>Belfast Telegraph<\/em> wrote at the time: <\/strong><a title=\"Belfast Telegraph\" href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/mandela-to-join-qubs-honorary-graduate-list-28437574.html\">http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/mandela-to-join-qubs-honorary-graduate-list-28437574.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honoris Causa NELSON MANDELA was bestowed a degree &#8220;Honoris Causa&#8221; by Queen&#8217;s University Belfast in July 2008 &#8220;for distinction in public service&#8221;. Because Mandela not well, he could not attend the ceremony in Belfast. A Queen&#8217;s representative flew to South Africa to hand him the degree while he, on his side, recorded a message which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/2017\/09\/28\/mandela\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nelson Mandela<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,9,11],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-qub-africa","tag-honoris-causa","tag-mandela","tag-queens-university-belfast","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sa93ki-mandela","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}