{"id":199501,"date":"2025-06-04T13:12:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/south-africa-scotts-maphuma-arrested-after-skipping-mozambique-concert\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T13:12:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:12:48","slug":"south-africa-scotts-maphuma-arrested-after-skipping-mozambique-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/south-africa-scotts-maphuma-arrested-after-skipping-mozambique-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Scotts Maphuma Arrested After Skipping Mozambique Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Amapiano star Scotts Maphuma says he skipped the show because organisers were rude to him and did not treat him with respect.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A video of him refusing to answer a journalist&#8217;s questions has gone viral, and fans are not impressed.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Amapiano singer Scotts Maphuma has found himself in trouble once again, this time in Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The <em>Uyaphapha Marn<\/em> hitmaker travelled to Maputo over the weekend for a concert meant for children. But instead of performing, he was arrested for failing to show up at the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506040061.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amapiano star Scotts Maphuma says he skipped the show because organisers were rude to him and did not treat him with respect. A video of him refusing to answer a journalist&#8217;s questions has gone viral, and fans are not impressed. Amapiano singer Scotts Maphuma has found himself in trouble once again, this time in Mozambique. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,4304,14773,51534,4704,682,257,44768,51535,5069,254],"class_list":["post-199501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-concert","tag-maphuma","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-scotts","tag-skipping","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/199501","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=199501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}