{"id":325,"date":"2014-10-09T15:12:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T15:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebeblog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2014-10-13T10:08:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T10:08:26","slug":"colourful-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebeblog\/2014\/10\/colourful-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Colourful people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thebe celebrated Heritage Day in style. The offices were ablaze with colours, as staff dressed up in traditional clothing and shared their unique heritage and culture. The assortment of foods, from Briyani, pap, potjie, maotwana-chicken feet (affectionately known as \u2018runaways\u2019), to milktart and mogudu (tripe), gave a taste of our diverse cultures and culinary variety. Mokgethi Tshabalala, the CEO of The Thebe Foundation, shared a few words on how cultures evolve over time and the importance of moving forward while still being firmly rooted in our heritage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebetimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0291.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1022\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebetimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0291-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0291\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebetimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0288.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1021\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebetimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0288-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0288\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebetimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0282.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1020\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebetimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0282-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0282\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebetimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_02731.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1044\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebetimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_02731-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0273\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Heritage-Day-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Heritage-Day-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Heritage Day 1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Heritage-Day-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Heritage-Day-1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Heritage-Day-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Heritage-Day-2-115x300.jpg\" alt=\"Heritage Day 2\" width=\"115\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Heritage-Day-2-115x300.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Heritage-Day-2-394x1024.jpg 394w, https:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Heritage-Day-2.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 115px) 100vw, 115px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Heritage-Day-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Heritage-Day-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Heritage Day 3\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Heritage-Day-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Heritage-Day-3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Heritage-Day-3-640x853.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thebe.co.za\/thebeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Heritage-Day-3-940x1253.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thebe celebrated Heritage Day in style. The offices were ablaze with colours, as staff dressed up in traditional clothing and shared their unique heritage and culture. The assortment of foods, from Briyani, pap, potjie, maotwana-chicken feet (affectionately known as \u2018runaways\u2019), to milktart and mogudu (tripe), gave a taste of our diverse cultures and culinary variety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post_format-post-format-image"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Colourful people - Thebe Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Colourful people - Thebe Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thebe celebrated Heritage Day in style. 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