{"id":180874,"date":"2024-09-19T11:15:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T09:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-bhundu-boys-member-rise-kagona-dies\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T11:15:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T09:15:53","slug":"zimbabwe-bhundu-boys-member-rise-kagona-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-bhundu-boys-member-rise-kagona-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Bhundu Boys Member Rise Kagona Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">Bhundu Boys founding member, Rise Kagona, has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Multiple sources said Kagona died in Scotland yesterday after a long illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\">He was 62.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">Yesteryear musician and arts administrator Clive Malunga confirmed Kagona&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;We are all in shock after learning about the death of Rise Kagona who was indeed a professional musician,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">&#8220;He used to perform at the Jenagura Festival when he was still in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;I facilitated his return to the UK where they made history. The last I heard about&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409190103.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>Bhundu Boys founding member, Rise Kagona, has died. Multiple sources said Kagona died in Scotland yesterday after a long illness. He was 62. Yesteryear musician and arts administrator Clive Malunga confirmed Kagona&#8217;s death. &#8220;We are all in shock after learning about the death of Rise Kagona who was indeed a professional musician,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He [&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":[258,256,49556,9380,6868,49557,6483,257,10256,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-180874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bhundu","tag-boys","tag-dies","tag-kagona","tag-member","tag-news","tag-rise","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180874","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=180874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180874\/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=180874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}