{"id":793,"date":"2010-05-12T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midastouch.goldgenie.com\/?p=793"},"modified":"2010-05-12T14:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:00:20","slug":"laban-roomes-dj-talent-and-margo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/laban-roomes-dj-talent-and-margo\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF1066.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-794\" title=\"DSCF1066\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF1066-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a>DJ Talent, Laban Roomes &amp; Margo<\/p>\n<p>DJ Talent, Margo and Laban Roomes were sent to Ghana then South Africa to experience life as a gold miner, the effect it has on the community and how people mined without the appropriate equipment due to poverty.\u00a0 In the case of South Africa during Apartheid, when it was illegal to provide correct clothing for black miners because they were considered lessor than animals &#8211; subsequently risking their lives to bring us &#8220;gold\u201d.\u00a0 The trip was to educate these individuals through sponsoring families and to make a\u00a0TV programme\u00a0specifically for the BBC.\u00a0 The South African miners, who were denied equipment during Apartheid and contracted lung disease, are currently suing the government and it\u2019s expected they will receive record-breaking compensation once the settlement is finalized.\u00a0 For this journey, three individuals were selected due to their involvement with gold; DJ Talent for his teeth, Margo\u2019s string of jeweler\u2019s countrywide and Laban Roomes for his gold plating business.\u00a0 Celedor, makers of &#8220;Who Wants to Be a Millionaire&#8221; for BBC, filmed the whole experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DJ Talent, Laban Roomes &amp; Margo DJ Talent, Margo and Laban Roomes were sent to Ghana then South Africa to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20,22],"tags":[189,293,426,544,794,999,1118,1442],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-friends","category-giving-back","tag-bbc","tag-celedor","tag-dj-talent","tag-friends","tag-goldgenie","tag-laban-roomes","tag-margo","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}