{"id":221608,"date":"2026-04-22T12:48:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=221608"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:48:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:48:43","slug":"professor-mlungisi-ngubane-marks-70th-birthday-with-star-studded-durban-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=221608","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Professor\u2019 Mlungisi Ngubane marks 70th birthday with star-studded Durban celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African football legend and respected TV analyst Mlungisi Ngubane is celebrating a major milestone as he turns 70, with a series of high-profile events honouring his decades-long contribution to the beautiful game. Affectionately known as \u201cProfessor\u201d, Ngubane will be celebrated at a gala dinner at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Umhlanga on Friday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/fakazanews.com\/2026\/02\/20\/professor-mlungisi-ngubane-marks-70th-birthday-with-star-studded-durban-celebration\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=professor-mlungisi-ngubane-marks-70th-birthday-with-star-studded-durban-celebration\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African football legend and respected TV analyst Mlungisi Ngubane is celebrating a major milestone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221608-professor-mlungisi-ngubane-marks-70th-birthday-with-star-studded-durban-celebration.jpg",600,394,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221608-professor-mlungisi-ngubane-marks-70th-birthday-with-star-studded-durban-celebration-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221608-professor-mlungisi-ngubane-marks-70th-birthday-with-star-studded-durban-celebration-300x197.jpg",300,197,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221608-professor-mlungisi-ngubane-marks-70th-birthday-with-star-studded-durban-celebration.jpg",600,394,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221608-professor-mlungisi-ngubane-marks-70th-birthday-with-star-studded-durban-celebration.jpg",600,394,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221608-professor-mlungisi-ngubane-marks-70th-birthday-with-star-studded-durban-celebration.jpg",600,394,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221608-professor-mlungisi-ngubane-marks-70th-birthday-with-star-studded-durban-celebration.jpg",600,394,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221608-professor-mlungisi-ngubane-marks-70th-birthday-with-star-studded-durban-celebration.jpg",600,394,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221608-professor-mlungisi-ngubane-marks-70th-birthday-with-star-studded-durban-celebration.jpg",600,394,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221608-professor-mlungisi-ngubane-marks-70th-birthday-with-star-studded-durban-celebration-590x394.jpg",590,394,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\/221608","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=221608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/221609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}