{"id":201160,"date":"2025-06-29T01:50:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T23:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-not-in-our-name-south-african-artists-condemn-gayton-mckenzies-xenophobic-tirade\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T01:50:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T23:50:31","slug":"zimbabwe-not-in-our-name-south-african-artists-condemn-gayton-mckenzies-xenophobic-tirade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-not-in-our-name-south-african-artists-condemn-gayton-mckenzies-xenophobic-tirade\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: &#8216;Not in Our Name&#8217; &#8211; South African Artists Condemn Gayton Mckenzie&#8217;s Xenophobic Tirade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Actress Thandi Sebe has joined a growing chorus of South African artists condemning Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/iol.co.za\/capeargus\/news\/2025-06-23-athlone-stadium-development-faces-backlash-as-mckenzie-calls-it-a-nonsense-idea\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Gayton McKenzie,<\/a> for spreading Afrophobic hate speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">In a recent post on Instagram, Sebe said: &#8220;As the South African Constitutional Court turns 30, we as South African artists call upon our leaders to protect the ideals of our beautiful constitution that guarantee the promise of a South Africa that belongs to all who live in it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">&#8220;We condemn the hateful vitriol that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506270496.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>Actress Thandi Sebe has joined a growing chorus of South African artists condemning Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, for spreading Afrophobic hate speech. In a recent post on Instagram, Sebe said: &#8220;As the South African Constitutional Court turns 30, we as South African artists call upon our leaders to protect the ideals [&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":[258,256,4380,9352,6764,51752,51753,257,5069,254,42052,16856,4686,421],"class_list":["post-201160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-artists","tag-condemn","tag-gayton","tag-mckenzies","tag-news","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tirade","tag-xenophobic","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201160","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=201160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201160\/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=201160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}