{"id":214915,"date":"2025-11-26T09:27:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-gospel-singer-sovita-claims-being-sidelined-at-worship-concert-as-organisers-address-complaint\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T09:27:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:27:52","slug":"namibia-gospel-singer-sovita-claims-being-sidelined-at-worship-concert-as-organisers-address-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-gospel-singer-sovita-claims-being-sidelined-at-worship-concert-as-organisers-address-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Gospel Singer Sovita Claims Being Sidelined At Worship Concert, As Organisers Address Complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><em>Restoration Concert 3.0 organiser Tim Ekandjo says complaints by gospel artist Sovita Joshua have been addressed after she said she had to perform to an empty stadium in the sun before the official show began.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">Joshua, who has been vocal as a woman with albinism through the People Living with Albinism organisation, received massive support from fans on social media after sharing that she also suffered sunburn when she was exposed to the sun for the duration of her time on stage during the show in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511260073.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restoration Concert 3.0 organiser Tim Ekandjo says complaints by gospel artist Sovita Joshua have been addressed after she said she had to perform to an empty stadium in the sun before the official show began. Joshua, who has been vocal as a woman with albinism through the People Living with Albinism organisation, received massive support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214916,"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":[723],"tags":[7325,258,256,8117,8389,14773,8813,4706,724,257,18731,6569,8474,254,52961,25306],"class_list":["post-214915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-address","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claims","tag-complaint","tag-concert","tag-gospel","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-organisers","tag-sidelined","tag-singer","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sovita","tag-worship"],"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\/214915","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=214915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}