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Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto has mourned Leonard Mambo Mbotela as a gifted broadcaster who will be fondly remembered for the integral role he played on the airwaves.<\/em><\/p>\n In his condolence message, the head of state described him as a broadcaster whose alluring voice dominated the airwaves.<\/p>\n Mbotela passed away Friday morning at about 9.30am after a short illness aged 85 years.<\/p>\n “We are heartbroken by the death of veteran broadcaster Leonard Mambo Mbotela. He was a gifted and powerful broadcaster…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto has mourned Leonard Mambo Mbotela as a gifted broadcaster who will be fondly remembered for the integral role he played on the airwaves. In his condolence message, the head of state described him as a broadcaster whose alluring voice dominated the airwaves. Mbotela passed away Friday morning at about 9.30am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":190800,"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":[250],"tags":[258,256,23617,29417,4688,430,50284,38422,50595,9061,257,2450,11238,254],"class_list":["post-190799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-broadcaster","tag-gifted","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-leonard","tag-mambo","tag-mbotela","tag-mourns","tag-news","tag-president","tag-ruto","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\/190799","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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