{"id":250623,"date":"2016-09-22T15:05:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T15:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=250623"},"modified":"2016-09-22T15:05:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T15:05:22","slug":"citi-fms-robben-island-experience-kicks-off-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=250623","title":{"rendered":"Citi FM&#8217;s Robben Island experience kicks off [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Participants of Citi FM\u2019s Robben Island experience have arrived in South Africa and are already having an amazing time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-250647\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/7b77bcc0-e2ec-45c0-a467-2af20181dc82.jpg\" alt=\"7b77bcc0-e2ec-45c0-a467-2af20181dc82\" width=\"417\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Participants today [Thursday], visited the Cape Town\u2019s Robben Island; where South African freedom fighter, and first black president, Nelson Mandela, spent 18 of his 27-year jail term.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-250646\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/6d0e8183-9edc-43f6-83a2-af736655fb25.jpg\" alt=\"6d0e8183-9edc-43f6-83a2-af736655fb25\" width=\"412\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_250648\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-250648\" style=\"width: 389px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-250648\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/09b20a27-5484-44f2-8713-2a3deb7a8f15.jpg\" alt=\"Nelson Mandel's prison cell\" width=\"389\" height=\"691\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-250648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nelson Mandel&#8217;s prison cell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-250635\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ab4556c4-df76-4e33-8c89-e87c911bf2e7.jpg\" alt=\"ab4556c4-df76-4e33-8c89-e87c911bf2e7\" width=\"457\" height=\"303\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-250632\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/907c1ef1-a6ab-4934-888c-6ab1285e5026.jpg\" alt=\"907c1ef1-a6ab-4934-888c-6ab1285e5026\" width=\"459\" height=\"689\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Participants today visited the Cape Town\u2019s Robben Island; where South African freedom fighter, and first black president, Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27-year jail term.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-250631\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/564562ea-8d61-42ef-9e62-b7b1faa94ba5.jpg\" alt=\"564562ea-8d61-42ef-9e62-b7b1faa94ba5\" width=\"449\" height=\"299\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-250630\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/7770d7c2-6c5c-4dd6-997b-a73fd86d6b81.jpg\" alt=\"7770d7c2-6c5c-4dd6-997b-a73fd86d6b81\" width=\"458\" height=\"305\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-250629\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/c9b70f7f-561f-4409-bbde-4347a8f8d8ad.jpg\" alt=\"c9b70f7f-561f-4409-bbde-4347a8f8d8ad\" width=\"457\" height=\"304\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-250642\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/5a21b8a1-072e-41fa-8d17-011ee0fca8cd.jpg\" alt=\"5a21b8a1-072e-41fa-8d17-011ee0fca8cd\" width=\"454\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Twenty-One (21) listeners of <strong>Citi FM<\/strong> participating in the memorable trip, will also visit the Table Mountain; the most iconic landmark of South Africa which houses about 2,200 species of plants and some 15000 floral species, Cape Town City, and Cape Point.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-day exciting trip to Cape Town follows Citi fm\u2019s successful organization of the Heritage Caravan, which took participants to some exciting places in eight different regions of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>For some of the participants, the trip offers them an <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/18\/participants-set-for-citi-fms-robben-island-experience\/\">exciting way <\/a><\/strong><\/span>to celebrate their spouses\u2019 birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Participants who will be missing the station\u2019s flagship Citi Business Olympics which comes off on Saturday, 24th September, will have their own version of the games dubbed \u201cRolympics\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRolympics is a mini Business Olympics which includes indoor games like charade, scrabble and general knowledge. It\u2019s the same idea around Citi Business Olympics, but this time in Cape Town\u201d, Ranstina Yankey, the team leader for the Robben Island Experience said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Robben Island Experience\u201d comes off from the 20th to 27th of September 2016. It is in partnership with South African Airways.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participants of Citi FM\u2019s Robben Island experience have arrived in South Africa and are already having an amazing time. Participants today [Thursday], visited the Cape Town\u2019s Robben Island; where South African freedom fighter, and first black president, Nelson Mandela, spent 18 of his 27-year jail term. Participants today visited the Cape Town\u2019s Robben Island; where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":250636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[580,3,11977,481],"class_list":["post-250623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-citi-fm","tag-ghana-news","tag-robben-island-experience","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/250636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}