{"id":192727,"date":"2025-03-03T18:34:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T16:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-nama-awards-winky-d-rules-the-roost-again-clinches-peoples-choice-gong\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T18:34:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T16:34:49","slug":"zimbabwe-nama-awards-winky-d-rules-the-roost-again-clinches-peoples-choice-gong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-nama-awards-winky-d-rules-the-roost-again-clinches-peoples-choice-gong\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: NAMA Awards &#8211; Winky D Rules the Roost Again, Clinches People&#8217;s Choice Gong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The undisputed king of Zim dancehall, Wallace Chirumiko, popularly known as Winky D, has reaffirmed his position as the doyen after scooping the National Arts Merits Award (NAMA) People&#8217;s Choice gong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">This is the second consecutive year that Winky D has been adjudged the country&#8217;s most loved artist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">The colourful crowning event was held in Harare Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">NewZimbabwe.com extends hearty congratulations to NAMA23 conveners for hosting the successful event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\"><strong>Hereunder is a full list of&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503030051.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>The undisputed king of Zim dancehall, Wallace Chirumiko, popularly known as Winky D, has reaffirmed his position as the doyen after scooping the National Arts Merits Award (NAMA) People&#8217;s Choice gong. This is the second consecutive year that Winky D has been adjudged the country&#8217;s most loved artist. The colourful crowning event was held in [&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":[258,256,6526,9650,11195,15379,5436,257,8649,10521,10967,254,8757,4686,421],"class_list":["post-192727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-awards","tag-choice","tag-clinches","tag-gong","tag-nama","tag-news","tag-peoples","tag-roost","tag-rules","tag-south-africa-today","tag-winky","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192727","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=192727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192727\/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=192727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}