{"id":964548,"date":"2024-07-06T15:25:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T15:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964548"},"modified":"2024-07-06T15:25:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T15:25:24","slug":"ec-artist-scoops-second-standard-bank-ovation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/ec-artist-scoops-second-standard-bank-ovation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"EC artist scoops second Standard Bank Ovation Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An established Gqeberha based playwright and actor, Xabiso Zweni, has scooped a Standard Bank Ovation Award for the second time.<\/p>\n<p>It is for his latest production, The Tyrant, at the just completed playing at the National Arts Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Four years ago, his play Bhuti is the Beast, scooped the same award.<\/p>\n<p>Zweni hopes his success encourages young people to write.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is always an honour to receive any award. Every other year I get the honour to receive the MEC Award here in the Eastern Cape for the work I am doing in the theatre space and the community. Receiving the Standard Bank Ovation Award, it is something that one always dreams of when creating a work that goes to the National Arts Festival.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gqeberha actor and playwright scoops second Standard Bank Ovation Award:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9yx5nl7Q2LQ?si=DACNu9AMecpyI8xW\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, his play Bhuti is the Beast, scooped the same award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":964549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[731,732],"class_list":["post-964548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-standard-bank-ovation-award","tag-xabiso-zweni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}