{"id":201374,"date":"2025-07-02T01:59:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-city-to-city-a-night-of-high-hopes-bold-experiment-undermined-by-chaos-missed-cues\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:59:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:59:24","slug":"zimbabwe-city-to-city-a-night-of-high-hopes-bold-experiment-undermined-by-chaos-missed-cues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-city-to-city-a-night-of-high-hopes-bold-experiment-undermined-by-chaos-missed-cues\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: City to City &#8211; A Night of High Hopes, Bold Experiment Undermined By Chaos, Missed Cues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">It was a huge gamble that the young turks of Zimbabwean music took.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">They dared to walk an uncharted path, illuminating the mecca of Zimbabwean entertainment, the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">With the City to City concert, they dared to challenge themselves and stretch their limits without the traditional heavyweights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">It was a test of character for Freeman, Master H, Tammy Moyo, Killer T, Enzo Ishall, Nisha Ts and Chillmaster to stake a claim at the hard-to-fill HICC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Nerves hit&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507010263.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>It was a huge gamble that the young turks of Zimbabwean music took. They dared to walk an uncharted path, illuminating the mecca of Zimbabwean entertainment, the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC). With the City to City concert, they dared to challenge themselves and stretch their limits without the traditional heavyweights. It was a test [&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":[258,256,7439,6604,6603,51776,10888,6184,10002,17045,257,7589,254,12680,4686,421],"class_list":["post-201374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bold","tag-chaos","tag-city","tag-cues","tag-experiment","tag-high","tag-hopes","tag-missed","tag-news","tag-night","tag-south-africa-today","tag-undermined","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201374","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=201374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201374\/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=201374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}