{"id":199587,"date":"2025-06-05T13:14:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/zimbabwe-scotts-maphuma-faces-backlash-for-missing-major-childrens-festival-in-mozambique\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T13:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:14:52","slug":"zimbabwe-scotts-maphuma-faces-backlash-for-missing-major-childrens-festival-in-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/zimbabwe-scotts-maphuma-faces-backlash-for-missing-major-childrens-festival-in-mozambique\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Scotts Maphuma Faces Backlash for Missing Major Children&#8217;s Festival in Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Amapiano artist <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/iol.co.za\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/2025-05-08-when-sorry-isnt-enough-scotts-maphumas-apology-falls-flat-with-fans\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Scotts Maphuma, real name Mpho Lebajoa,<\/a> is making headlines once again, and this time it is because he found himself in hot water as he was reportedly arrested over the weekend in Mozambique, where he was scheduled to perform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The &#8220;Shayi&#8217;Moto&#8221; singer was set to perform in the country over the weekend at an annual Children&#8217;s Day festival in Matola, Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">However, he did not show up to the event, and he later discovered that things work differently in Mozambique, finding&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506050135.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 artist Scotts Maphuma, real name Mpho Lebajoa, is making headlines once again, and this time it is because he found himself in hot water as he was reportedly arrested over the weekend in Mozambique, where he was scheduled to perform. The &#8220;Shayi&#8217;Moto&#8221; singer was set to perform in the country over the weekend at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199588,"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":[258,256,7686,10169,5080,7632,7373,51534,6947,4704,682,257,44768,254,4686],"class_list":["post-199587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backlash","tag-childrens","tag-faces","tag-festival","tag-major","tag-maphuma","tag-missing","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-scotts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe"],"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\/199587","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=199587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}