{"id":180373,"date":"2024-09-11T16:22:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T14:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-gotty-gwetu-cautions-against-gbv-in-new-song\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T16:22:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T14:22:53","slug":"namibia-gotty-gwetu-cautions-against-gbv-in-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-gotty-gwetu-cautions-against-gbv-in-new-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: &#8216;Gotty Gwetu&#8217; Cautions Against GBV in New Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>Kavango West musician Kudumo Godfried, better known as Gotty Gwetu, has released the single, &#8216;Mama&#8217;, which addresses gender-based violence (GBV).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">In an interview with unWrap.online this week, the kwaito and Afropop artist expressed his disappointment in the increase of GBV cases in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">He believes musicians should use their public platforms to help address social ills affecting the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">&#8220;The song is basically just demonstrating the dangers of entering a relationship for the wrong&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409110332.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kavango West musician Kudumo Godfried, better known as Gotty Gwetu, has released the single, &#8216;Mama&#8217;, which addresses gender-based violence (GBV). In an interview with unWrap.online this week, the kwaito and Afropop artist expressed his disappointment in the increase of GBV cases in the country. He believes musicians should use their public platforms to help address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":180374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,8316,14080,49496,49497,4706,724,257,4333,254],"class_list":["post-180373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cautions","tag-gbv","tag-gotty","tag-gwetu","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-song","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180373","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=180373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}