{"id":194706,"date":"2025-03-27T22:30:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T20:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-marleys-1980-visit-opened-doors-for-jamaican-crooners\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T22:30:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T20:30:41","slug":"zimbabwe-marleys-1980-visit-opened-doors-for-jamaican-crooners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-marleys-1980-visit-opened-doors-for-jamaican-crooners\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Marley&#8217;s 1980 Visit Opened Doors for Jamaican Crooners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Robert Nesta Marley (Bob Marley)&#8217;s visit to Zimbabwe in 1980 was a monumental event that opened floodgates for Jamaicans and left an indelible mark on the nation&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Showbiz gurus, Hararians and freedom-hungry Zimbabweans gathered for the Independence Day celebrations at Rufaro Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The atmosphere was electric, filled with a mix of euphoria and anxiety as the nation stood on the brink of a new era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">For both nationalists and the masses yearning for freedom, this was an event not to be&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503270405.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>Robert Nesta Marley (Bob Marley)&#8217;s visit to Zimbabwe in 1980 was a monumental event that opened floodgates for Jamaicans and left an indelible mark on the nation&#8217;s history. Showbiz gurus, Hararians and freedom-hungry Zimbabweans gathered for the Independence Day celebrations at Rufaro Stadium. The atmosphere was electric, filled with a mix of euphoria and anxiety [&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":[258,256,11692,24752,35623,29770,257,9487,254,6250,4686,421],"class_list":["post-194706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crooners","tag-doors","tag-jamaican","tag-marleys","tag-news","tag-opened","tag-south-africa-today","tag-visit","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194706","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=194706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194706\/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=194706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}