{"id":187897,"date":"2025-01-04T14:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T12:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-winky-d-reflects-on-a-year-of-trials-and-triumphs-as-2025-kicks-off\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T14:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T12:12:40","slug":"zimbabwe-winky-d-reflects-on-a-year-of-trials-and-triumphs-as-2025-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-winky-d-reflects-on-a-year-of-trials-and-triumphs-as-2025-kicks-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Winky D Reflects On a Year of Trials and Triumphs As 2025 Kicks Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">AS the new year 2025 begins to unfold, lyrical genius, Wallace Chirumiko popularly known as &#8216;Winky D&#8217; or &#8216;Gaffa President&#8217; invited his fans to embark on his reflective odyssey, marked by personal and professional hurdles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">In a heartfelt message to his fans, the music icon expressed the need to &#8220;pause&#8221; and contemplate the past year of 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">&#8220;As we start a new year, I am compelled to pause and reflect on what was, what is, what could have been, and what was not. As I confuse thyself in the bars of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501030105.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>AS the new year 2025 begins to unfold, lyrical genius, Wallace Chirumiko popularly known as &#8216;Winky D&#8217; or &#8216;Gaffa President&#8217; invited his fans to embark on his reflective odyssey, marked by personal and professional hurdles. In a heartfelt message to his fans, the music icon expressed the need to &#8220;pause&#8221; and contemplate the past year [&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":[258,256,7023,257,16974,254,14958,20379,8757,6537,4686,421],"class_list":["post-187897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kicks","tag-news","tag-reflects","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trials","tag-triumphs","tag-winky","tag-year","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187897","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=187897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187897\/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=187897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}