{"id":131,"date":"2014-06-18T08:54:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T08:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2024-03-28T09:57:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T09:57:05","slug":"traveling-to-mmabatho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/traveling-to-mmabatho\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling to Mmabatho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday we traveled to Mmabatho where we will be staying for the next three weeks. The 300 km trip took more than five hours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3341.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-134 size-large lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3341-1024x387.jpg\" alt=\"our one and only stop on the road\" width=\"720\" height=\"272\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3341-1024x387.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3341-300x113.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 720px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 720\/272;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3318.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-133 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3318-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3318-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3318-768x1024.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/300;\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3342.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-135 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3342-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3342-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3342-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After checking into the hotel Professor emeritus Modise Maaja gave us a short introduction to the history of the North-West university. It is actually the merger of three universities, those of <a title=\"Potchefstroom\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Potchefstroom\">Potchefstroom<\/a>, <a title=\"Mahikeng\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahikeng\">Mahikeng<\/a> and <a title=\"Vanderbijlpark\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vanderbijlpark\">Vanderbijlpark<\/a>. We are on the Mahikeng campus. The Mahikeng university was started in 1980 by the locals with money collected house by house. Therefore there is a strong local affinity, it is a university of the people.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening we worked hard with team to get our presentation for the next day into shape.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday we traveled to Mmabatho where we will be staying for the next three weeks. The 300 km trip took more than five hours. After checking into the hotel Professor emeritus Modise Maaja gave us a short introduction to the history of the North-West university. It is actually the merger of three universities, those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}