{"id":10033,"date":"2022-05-18T13:14:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T13:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc\/?p=10033"},"modified":"2022-05-18T13:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T13:14:22","slug":"media-statement-sabc-congratulates-leanne-manas-on-being-bestowed-the-national-order-of-merit-from-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/media-statement-sabc-congratulates-leanne-manas-on-being-bestowed-the-national-order-of-merit-from-france\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA STATEMENT | SABC CONGRATULATES LEANNE MANAS ON BEING BESTOWED THE NATIONAL ORDER OF MERIT FROM FRANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Johannesburg \u2013 Wednesday, 18 May 2022<\/strong> \u2013 The South African Broadcasting Corporation (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc\/\">SABC<\/a>) congratulates Ms. Leanne Manas on being bestowed the <em>Chevalier de l&#8217;Ordre national du M\u00e9rite <\/em>(Knight of the French National Order of Merit).<\/p>\n<p>This prestigious honour was presented to Ms. Manas last night, by H.E. Mr. Aur\u00e9lien Lechevallier, the Ambassador of France to South Africa, of behalf of France\u2019s President, Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n<p>According to the press statement by the Ambassador\u2019s office, \u201cthis high honor recognizes her immense contribution to journalism, media and various important charitable causes. It is a recognition of her extraordinary talent and resilience on our TV screens as she continues to inform South Africans through her daily programme <em>Morning Live<\/em>, which she has been hosting on South Africa\u2019s public broadcaster SABC for almost two decades\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe public broadcaster is proud that Ms. Manas\u2019 hard work and dedication to our SABC 2 news platform <em>Morning Live<\/em>, continues to have a profound impact and resonance with audiences across the globe after all these years\u201d, commented Ms. Deidre Uren, the SABC\u2019s Acting Group Executive: News and Current Affairs\u201d.\u00a0 \u201cWe applaud her for continuously flying the South African flag high\u201d, concluded Ms Uren.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Issued By:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0SABC <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Enquiries:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ms. Gugu Ntuli (Group Executive: Corporate Affairs and Marketing) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:NtuliGM@sabc.co.za\"><strong>NtuliGM@sabc.co.za<\/strong><\/a><strong> | T. 011 714 3311 | C. 071 877 0513<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg \u2013 Wednesday, 18 May 2022 \u2013 The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) congratulates Ms. Leanne Manas on being bestowed the Chevalier de l&#8217;Ordre national du M\u00e9rite (Knight of the French National Order of Merit). This prestigious honour was presented to Ms. Manas last night, by H.E. Mr. Aur\u00e9lien Lechevallier, the Ambassador of France to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10034,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033\/revisions\/10034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}