{"id":240462,"date":"2026-08-06T07:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-nigel-tha-slick-pastor-to-headline-shoko-festivals-much-awaited-comedy-night\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:49:02","slug":"zimbabwe-nigel-tha-slick-pastor-to-headline-shoko-festivals-much-awaited-comedy-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-nigel-tha-slick-pastor-to-headline-shoko-festivals-much-awaited-comedy-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Nigel Tha Slick Pastor to Headline Shoko Festival&#8217;s Much Awaited Comedy Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">SHOKO Festival has announced popular stand-up comedian Nigel Tha Slick Pastor as the main act at this year&#8217;s Comedy Night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Set for September 24, Shoko Comedy Night will be Nigel Tha Slick Pastor&#8217;s perfect homecoming show as it is scheduled just after his recently announced United Kingdom (UK) tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">His job will not be easy; however, he has to match up to or exceed what his predecessors have done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>King wema Baddies<\/em>, King Kandoro and American sensation Learnmore Jonasi have been in the same shoes in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608060050.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>SHOKO Festival has announced popular stand-up comedian Nigel Tha Slick Pastor as the main act at this year&#8217;s Comedy Night. Set for September 24, Shoko Comedy Night will be Nigel Tha Slick Pastor&#8217;s perfect homecoming show as it is scheduled just after his recently announced United Kingdom (UK) tour. His job will not be easy; [&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":[258,256,14424,21864,8214,8760,257,55065,7589,7582,30290,9523,254,55066,4686,421],"class_list":["post-240462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-awaited","tag-comedy","tag-festivals","tag-headline","tag-news","tag-nigel","tag-night","tag-pastor","tag-shoko","tag-slick","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tha","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240462","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=240462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240462\/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=240462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}