{"id":860589,"date":"2025-07-06T20:13:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T01:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/06\/presley-chweneyagae-remembered-as-son-of-the-soil-at-mafikeng-memorial\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T20:13:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T01:13:56","slug":"presley-chweneyagae-remembered-as-son-of-the-soil-at-mafikeng-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/06\/presley-chweneyagae-remembered-as-son-of-the-soil-at-mafikeng-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Presley Chweneyagae remembered as \u201cson of the soil\u201d at Mafikeng memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The arts community, dignitaries, and family members gathered in Mahikeng, North West, on Tuesday to pay tribute to Presley Chweneyagae, the internationally acclaimed actor best known for his lead role in the Oscar-winning film Tsotsi. The memorial service, held at the Mmabatho Convention Centre, saw Acting Premier Kenetswe Mosenogi and other leaders reflect on Chweneyagae\u2019s [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sundayworld.co.za\/news\/presley-chweneyagae-remembered-as-son-of-the-soil-at-mafikeng-memorial\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=presley-chweneyagae-remembered-as-son-of-the-soil-at-mafikeng-memorial\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Setumo Stone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arts community, dignitaries, and family members gathered in Mahikeng, North West, on Tuesday to pay tribute to Presley Chweneyagae, the internationally acclaimed actor best known for his lead role in the Oscar-winning film Tsotsi. The memorial service, held at the Mmabatho Convention Centre, saw Acting Premier Kenetswe Mosenogi and other leaders reflect on Chweneyagae\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":860590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145116,31836,192],"tags":[145115,107663],"class_list":["post-860589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chweneyagae","category-presley","category-sports","tag-chweneyagae","tag-presley"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}