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Grammy Award-winning South African composer Lebo “Lebo M” Morake has filed a $20 million lawsuit against Zimbabwean comedian Learnmore Jonasi.<\/p>\n
The legal action, filed in the United States District Court in Los Angeles on Tuesday, 17 March 2026, cites “damaging misrepresentations, defamatory conduct, and unlawful commercial exploitation” of the globally acclaimed “Nants’ Ingonyama” chant.<\/p>\n
The dispute stems from Jonasi’s recent appearance on the One54 Africa podcast, where he joked about the meaning…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Grammy Award-winning South African composer Lebo “Lebo M” Morake has filed a $20 million lawsuit against Zimbabwean comedian Learnmore Jonasi. The legal action, filed in the United States District Court in Los Angeles on Tuesday, 17 March 2026, cites “damaging misrepresentations, defamatory conduct, and unlawful commercial exploitation” of the globally acclaimed “Nants’ Ingonyama” chant. The […]<\/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":[258,256,14850,8646,49512,8946,49511,53951,7956,5118,257,254,11600,44447,13080,4686,421],"class_list":["post-227357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-comedian","tag-joke","tag-jonasi","tag-king","tag-learnmore","tag-lebo","tag-lion","tag-million","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sues","tag-u-s-20","tag-viral","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227357","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=227357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227357\/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=227357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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