{"id":146697,"date":"2016-12-08T16:55:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T14:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=146697"},"modified":"2016-12-08T16:55:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T14:55:45","slug":"watch-a-new-song-praising-hlaudi-motsoeneng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/146697\/watch-a-new-song-praising-hlaudi-motsoeneng\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: A new song praising Hlaudi Motsoeneng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hlaudi Motsoeneng has been honoured with a third song thanking him for this work at the SABC.<\/p>\n<p>The song titled &#8220;Mokakalope&#8221; was performed\u00a0 by\u00a0 a group of musicians from Lesotho, called the Lesotho Allstars, and is primarily sung in SeSotho. It aired live on SABC News on 7 December.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the third such song broadcast by the SABC, effectively thanking itself and Group Executive of Corporate Affairs, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, for its own\u00a0policy to put 90% local music on all its radio stations.<\/p>\n<p>The first song simply titled &#8220;Thank You SABC&#8221; aired in May 2016 and was publicly mandated to be played on all SABC radio stations by Motsoeneng.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lesotho Allstars sing about Hlaudi Motsoeneng\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tZs7Uf48LlU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/146661\/you-may-soon-be-able-to-choose-your-own-dstv-channels\/\" target=\"_blank\">You may soon be able to choose your own DStv channels<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hlaudi Motsoeneng has been honoured with a new song thanking him for this work at the SABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":146703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-146697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146697"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146709,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146697\/revisions\/146709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}