{"id":177933,"date":"2024-08-05T09:06:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T07:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/southern-africa-music-promoters-shelve-shows-ahead-of-sadc-summit\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T09:06:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T07:06:17","slug":"southern-africa-music-promoters-shelve-shows-ahead-of-sadc-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/southern-africa-music-promoters-shelve-shows-ahead-of-sadc-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Music Promoters Shelve Shows Ahead of SADC Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">MUSIC promoters have been forced to postpone several shows due to the upcoming Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit to be held in Harare in a fortnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">This follows concerns by the government over potential protests by the opposition activists and supporters during the annual gathering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Government&#8217;s threats against the opposition and activists have raised tensions in the country ahead of the summit which will be graced by Heads of States from the regional bloc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Popular &#8220;Braai Out&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408050021.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUSIC promoters have been forced to postpone several shows due to the upcoming Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit to be held in Harare in a fortnight. This follows concerns by the government over potential protests by the opposition activists and supporters during the annual gathering. Government&#8217;s threats against the opposition and activists have raised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,7019,6662,257,9006,1412,49229,7779,254,7153,5757,421],"class_list":["post-177933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-music","tag-news","tag-promoters","tag-sadc","tag-shelve","tag-shows","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-summit","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}