{"id":143201,"date":"2024-02-26T05:44:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T05:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=143201"},"modified":"2024-02-26T05:44:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T05:44:04","slug":"playwright-par-excellence-mbongeni-ngema-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=143201","title":{"rendered":"Playwright par excellence Mbongeni Ngema has passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed award-winning artist and one of South Africa\u2019s celebrated theater producers, director, composer and playwright Mbongeni Ngema has passed away. Ngema, bred in the village of eNhlwathi near the rural town of KwaHlabisa in northern KwaZulu-Natal, was involved in a car accident on Wednesday. It is believed that Ngema had been on his way back [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sundayworld.co.za\/breaking-news\/playwright-par-excellence-mbongeni-ngema-has-passed-away\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=playwright-par-excellence-mbongeni-ngema-has-passed-away\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed award-winning artist and one of South Africa\u2019s celebrated theater producers, director, composer and playwright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/143201-playwright-par-excellence-mbongeni-ngema-has-passed-away.jpg",684,410,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/143201-playwright-par-excellence-mbongeni-ngema-has-passed-away-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/143201-playwright-par-excellence-mbongeni-ngema-has-passed-away-300x180.jpg",300,180,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/143201-playwright-par-excellence-mbongeni-ngema-has-passed-away.jpg",640,384,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/143201-playwright-par-excellence-mbongeni-ngema-has-passed-away.jpg",640,384,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/143201-playwright-par-excellence-mbongeni-ngema-has-passed-away.jpg",684,410,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/143201-playwright-par-excellence-mbongeni-ngema-has-passed-away.jpg",684,410,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/143201-playwright-par-excellence-mbongeni-ngema-has-passed-away.jpg",684,410,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/143201-playwright-par-excellence-mbongeni-ngema-has-passed-away.jpg",684,410,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/143201-playwright-par-excellence-mbongeni-ngema-has-passed-away-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}