{"id":124836,"date":"2015-04-22T15:13:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T13:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=124836"},"modified":"2015-04-22T15:14:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T13:14:52","slug":"robben-island-google-street-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/124836-robben-island-google-street-view.html","title":{"rendered":"Robben Island Google Street View"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google has launched a Street View Maps gallery and virtual tour of Robben Island ahead of the anniversary of South Africa\u2019s first democratic elections, which happened on 27 April 1994.<\/p>\n

Now known as Freedom Day, Google South Africa\u2019s country director Luke McKend said the date has become a symbol of hope in SA and around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo commemorate this historic day, we’ve partnered with the Robben Island Museum<\/a> <\/strong>and the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory<\/a><\/strong> to bring the story of this UNESCO World Heritage Site online for the world to explore,\u201d said McKend.<\/p>\n

The Maps gallery<\/a><\/strong> and Cultural Institute<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0tour allow people to see the island where Nelson Mandela\u00a0was imprisoned, and\u00a0listen to prisoners\u2019 anecdotes about life in the prison.<\/p>\n

You can see personal items donated by former political prisoners, including a football trophy from their FIFA-recognized league, hand-drawn table tennis awards, a trumpet, and a duplicate master key fashioned by a prisoner from lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope you\u2019ll take a moment to step back in time to explore and be inspired by the island\u2019s story of hope and humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Nelson<\/a>

Nelson Mandela’s cell on Robben Island<\/p><\/div>\n

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Headline image\u00a0by Stephantom on\u00a0Wikimedia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google has launched a Maps gallery and virtual tour of Robben Island on Google Maps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":124840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,167,2272,2630,29978],"class_list":["post-124836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-google","tag-google-maps","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-robben-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124842,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124836\/revisions\/124842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}