{"id":1213,"date":"2009-11-23T06:34:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T12:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2011-01-31T19:10:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T17:10:03","slug":"france-apologises-to-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/france-apologises-to-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"France apologises to South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1214\" title=\"south-africa-national-anthem\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/south-africa-national-anthem.jpg\" alt=\"south-africa-national-anthem\" width=\"310\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/south-africa-national-anthem.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/south-africa-national-anthem-280x191.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><strong>South Africa&#8217;s rugby boss accepted an apology from his French counterpart over the poor rendition of the South African anthem at last weekend&#8217;s test match in Toulouse.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>South African-born singer Ras Dusimani, who lives in France and was recommended by the South African embassy, mangled the anthem &#8220;Nkosi Sikelel&#8217; iAfrika&#8221; last Friday, angering the world champion Springboks and offending South Africans. Moreover, the South African flag was flown upside down.<\/p>\n<p>Oregan Hoskins, president of the South African Rugby Union, asked for an explanation from the French Rugby Federation, and said in a statement on Tuesday that his FFR counterpart Pierre Camou offered unreserved apologies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He shares SARU&#8217;s shock at what he also describes as a &#8216;debacle,&#8217; of which his union was also a victim,&#8221; Hoskins said.<\/p>\n<p>He said he accepted that French rugby officials did not deliberately try to &#8220;sabotage the anthem and, as much as the performance still rankles, we regard the matter as now closed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>France won the match 20-13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s rugby boss accepted an apology from his French counterpart over the poor rendition of the South African anthem at last weekend&#8217;s test match in Toulouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[1951,960,1943,1942,1949,1950,1946,339,1944,1945,1948,1947],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rugby","tag-ffr","tag-france","tag-france-apologises","tag-france-rugby","tag-oregan-hoskins","tag-pierre-camou","tag-ras-dusimani","tag-south-africa","tag-south-african-anthem","tag-south-african-national-anthem","tag-south-african-rugby-union","tag-springboks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}