{"id":12720,"date":"2019-05-03T10:28:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T08:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/?p=12720"},"modified":"2019-05-03T10:28:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T08:28:47","slug":"its-war-multichoice-media-vs-the-afrikaans-community-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/south-africa-video\/political-videos\/its-war-multichoice-media-vs-the-afrikaans-community-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Its war! Multichoice media vs the Afrikaans community, South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video by &#8216;Loving Life&#8217; we see that Multichoice has banned Steve Hofmeyr from any further coverage on their tv network. Talk about censorship! This after they banned his song from the South African Music Awards, &#8216;The Ghoema  awards.&#8221; And now they are banning any content that may appear in future on their paid TV network and other brands like &#8216;Kyknet&#8217;. There has been a massive outcry over this censorship and a National call for subscribers to cancel their contracts with the company.<\/p>\n<p>The bann is based on their accusations that Steve Hofmeyr is racist and they are taking a stand against racism. The Afrikaans community in South Africa is deeply offended by Multichoice&#8217;s ban. <\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today \u2013 South Africa Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video by &#8216;Loving Life&#8217; we see that Multichoice has banned Steve Hofmeyr from any further coverage on their tv network. Talk about censorship! This after they banned his song from the South African Music Awards, &#8216;The Ghoema awards.&#8221; And now they are banning any content that may appear in future on their paid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[7956,7958,7867,7957,5432,7955,5232],"class_list":["post-12720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-videos","tag-afrikaans-community","tag-banning","tag-censorship","tag-ghoema-awards","tag-loving-life","tag-multichoice","tag-steve-hofmeyr","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}