{"id":89,"date":"2006-08-29T06:48:38","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T06:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/php7.innershed.com:10000\/virtual-server\/link.cgi\/212.71.245.84\/http:\/\/www.connectafrica\/WP1\/?p=89"},"modified":"2012-12-30T13:55:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T13:55:02","slug":"launch-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Launch update, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi All,<\/p>\n<p>Connect Africa South Africa formally launched at an event sponsored by Vodacom at their very smart HQ &#8211; Vodaworld.<\/p>\n<p>After an interesting run-up to the event with our 6m antenna mast mysteriously disappearing off the van on the trip down from Mokopane and a rear wheel being &#8220;destroyed&#8221; the day before the event (our first mishaps in over 8 weeks of operations) we finally got the vehicles ready for show.<\/p>\n<p>With over 60 attendees it was great to get all of our sponsors, and some new prospects, together for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>We also previewed a 5 minute DVD featuring Connect Africa &#8220;in action&#8221; that certainly proved popular.<\/p>\n<p>It was a great success!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<\/p>\n<p>Dion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi All, Connect Africa South Africa formally launched at an event sponsored by Vodacom at their very smart HQ &#8211; Vodaworld. After an interesting run-up to the event with our 6m antenna mast mysteriously disappearing off the van on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/?p=89\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}