{"id":5006,"date":"2003-12-14T17:03:27","date_gmt":"2003-12-14T17:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/?p=5006"},"modified":"2017-06-14T17:06:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T17:06:50","slug":"year-2003-in-southern-africa-a-retrospective-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/southern-africa-today\/year-2003-in-southern-africa-a-retrospective-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2003 in southern Africa: a retrospective reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2003, which started on a gloomy note with fears of starvation in parts of the region and tremors of US\/British military might pounding Iraq, has ended on a much more promising note, specially with weather experts predicting a better agricultural season for southern Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/pre\/SADC_TODAY_vol_6_5_December_2003.pdf\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/v6n5_2003.jpg?resize=100%2C134&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/pre\/SADC_TODAY_vol_6_5_December_2003.pdf\">English<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2003, which started on a gloomy note with fears of starvation in parts of the region and tremors of US\/British military might pounding Iraq, has ended on a much more promising note, specially with weather experts predicting a better agricultural season for southern Africa. English<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-southern-africa-today"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/fv6n5_2003.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h5b0-1iK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5011,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions\/5011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}