{"id":219136,"date":"2026-04-12T03:48:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=219136"},"modified":"2026-04-12T03:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:48:05","slug":"east-london-becomes-kugompo-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=219136","title":{"rendered":"East London becomes Kugompo city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EAST LONDON &#8211; East London will soon be known as KuGompo City, following a decision to rename the city. The Arts and Culture Department greenlit the new name. WATCH | [East London residents in the dark as cable theft continues] The name KuGompo dates back to the 1800s. It was named after the sound of<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/east-london-becomes-kugompo-city\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST LONDON &#8211; East London will soon be known as KuGompo City, following a decision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219136-east-london-becomes-kugompo-city.webp",480,315,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219136-east-london-becomes-kugompo-city-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219136-east-london-becomes-kugompo-city-300x197.webp",300,197,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219136-east-london-becomes-kugompo-city.webp",480,315,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219136-east-london-becomes-kugompo-city.webp",480,315,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219136-east-london-becomes-kugompo-city.webp",480,315,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219136-east-london-becomes-kugompo-city.webp",480,315,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219136-east-london-becomes-kugompo-city.webp",480,315,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219136-east-london-becomes-kugompo-city.webp",480,315,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219136-east-london-becomes-kugompo-city.webp",480,315,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219136","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=219136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/219137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}