{"id":4680,"date":"2016-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/amabhungane\/stories\/dear-friends-and-foes\/"},"modified":"2016-12-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T00:00:00","slug":"dear-friends-and-foes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/dear-friends-and-foes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Friends and Foes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year of political and economic shocks \u2013 and glimmers of hope \u2013 is drawing to a close and the holidays are upon us.<\/p>\n<p>When deciding what to give to your nearest this year, please consider making a small donation to our investigative journalism centre.<\/p>\n<p>Our readers care about our country. They want to see a democracy that is more open, accountable and just. They also know that a free and independent press is critical to getting there.<\/p>\n<p>With your help, we can expose more wrongdoing and empower people to work for change.<\/p>\n<p>We believe that the story we <a href=\"http:\/\/amabhungane.co.za\/article\/2016-12-14-serge-belamant-and-the-useful-blacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published today<\/a> \u2013 about how the ideal of black empowerment was twisted to make the politically connected very rich from a tender that should serve the poor \u2013 shows the solidity and value of our work.<\/p>\n<p>The same could be said of <a href=\"http:\/\/amabhungane.co.za\/article\/2016-12-08-exclusive-guptas-laundered-kickback-millions-heres-the-evidence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this expos\u00e9<\/a> about evidence connecting the Gupta family to a kickback laundering network.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your support this year, and happy holidays.<br \/>\nTeam amaBhungane<\/p>\n<p><strong>#SupportAmaB #SupportDemocracy<\/strong><br \/>\nAmounts big or small are welcome, but a recurring donation of R50 per month or R500 one-off makes you an official amaB Supporter.<br \/>\nFor more information or to donate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givengain.com\/cc\/amab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amabhungane.co.za\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/250x106.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"106\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><em><br \/>\nThe amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism produced this story. Like it? Be<a href=\"https:\/\/www.givengain.com\/cc\/amab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an amaB supporter<\/a> and help us domore. Know more? Send us <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amabhungane.co.za\/page\/tip-offs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a tip-off.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS FESTIVE SEASON, SUPPORT JOURNALISM THAT HOLDS POWER TO ACCOUNT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}