{"id":186591,"date":"2024-12-15T01:27:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T23:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-tuku-protege-in-canada-breakthrough-remains-deeply-connected-to-zim\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T01:27:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T23:27:46","slug":"zimbabwe-tuku-protege-in-canada-breakthrough-remains-deeply-connected-to-zim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-tuku-protege-in-canada-breakthrough-remains-deeply-connected-to-zim\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Tuku Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 in Canada Breakthrough . . . Remains Deeply Connected to Zim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Settling in the Diaspora and achieving international recognition is a dream for many local artists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">It requires hard work, professionalism and authenticity to succeed globally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Research has shown that talent alone is not enough; originality and focus are key for Zimbabwean creatives making it overseas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">One notable artist is Munyaradzi Mataruse, a product of Pakare Paye Arts Centre and a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of the late Oliver &#8220;Tuku&#8221; Mtukudzi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">After leaving Zimbabwe eight years ago, Munya has established&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412130297.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>Settling in the Diaspora and achieving international recognition is a dream for many local artists. It requires hard work, professionalism and authenticity to succeed globally. Research has shown that talent alone is not enough; originality and focus are key for Zimbabwean creatives making it overseas. One notable artist is Munyaradzi Mataruse, a product of Pakare [&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":[258,256,16212,7984,27304,10914,257,48903,7602,254,11752,6923,4686,421],"class_list":["post-186591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-breakthrough","tag-canada","tag-connected","tag-deeply","tag-news","tag-protege","tag-remains","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tuku","tag-zim","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186591","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=186591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186591\/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=186591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}