{"id":5553,"date":"2026-07-04T19:56:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnweru.com\/?p=5553"},"modified":"2026-07-04T19:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:57:07","slug":"from-ndihamba-nawe-to-abahambe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnweru.com\/?p=5553","title":{"rendered":"From Ndihamba Nawe to Abahambe &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have always liked Mafikizolo. I cannot remember when I heard their music for the first time. But there was something about it that stayed with me even though then just like now, I do not speak a word of Zulu beyond <em>kunjani<\/em>, <em>ngiyabonga<\/em> and a smattering of a few other phrases. Two songs from their repertoire have always stood out for me &#8230; <em>Emlanjeni <\/em>and <em>Ndihamba nawe<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always liked Mafikizolo. I cannot remember when I heard their music for the first time. But there was something about it that stayed with me even though then just like now, I do not speak a word of Zulu beyond kunjani, ngiyabonga and a smattering of a few other phrases. Two songs from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnweru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnweru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnweru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnweru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnweru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnweru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5554,"href":"https:\/\/johnweru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions\/5554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnweru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnweru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnweru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}