{"id":13352,"date":"2022-10-27T12:31:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T12:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc\/?p=13352"},"modified":"2022-10-27T12:31:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T12:31:57","slug":"media-statement-countdown-to-the-17th-xitsonga-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/media-statement-countdown-to-the-17th-xitsonga-music-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA STATEMENT | COUNTDOWN TO THE 17TH XITSONGA MUSIC AWARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Polokwane &#8211; Thursday, 27 October 2022<\/strong> &#8211; The South African Broadcasting Corporation\u2019s (SABC) only Xitsonga radio station, Munghana Lonene FM will host the 17th Xitsonga Music awards ceremony on Saturday, 5 November 2022 at Nkowankowa Stadium in Tzaneen. The awards will be preceded by a Gala dinner aimed at increasing the station\u2019s brand awareness and visibility.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 edition of Xitsonga Music Awards is themed \u201cVunanga ivutomi\u201d (Music is Life). The following are key dates leading up to the XMA17 ceremony:<\/p>\n<p><strong>28 October<\/strong> \u2013 Closing date, the votings for all the categories closes. (The attached list of nominees can be used to vote in the respective categories by sending an SMS to 45859.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>29 October<\/strong> \u2013 Most Popular Song Top 5 Annoucement, the remaining Top 5 nominees will be announced and called Live on air on <em>Timutsu to Xitsonga<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>03 November<\/strong> \u2013 XMA17 Host Annoucement, the hosts will be announced on Phaphama and on Social Media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>04 November<\/strong> \u2013 XMA17 Gala Dinner<\/p>\n<p><strong>05 November<\/strong> \u2013 XMA17 Awards Ceremony<\/p>\n<p>For more detail on the event and other XMA17 project elements, please visit the website \u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.munghanalonenefm.co.za\">www.munghanalonenefm.co.za<\/a> and on its social media platforms (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/munghana\/\">Facebook<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Munghana?t=brDUupWAYUz5lNy3LW16cA&amp;s=09\">Twitter<\/a> @Munghana).<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Enquiries: \u00a0Ms. Gugu Ntuli (Group Executive: Corporate Affairs and Marketing) \u00a0NtuliGM@sabc.co.za\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 T. 011 714 3311 | C. 071 877 0513<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polokwane &#8211; Thursday, 27 October 2022 &#8211; The South African Broadcasting Corporation\u2019s (SABC) only Xitsonga radio station, Munghana Lonene FM will host the 17th Xitsonga Music awards ceremony on Saturday, 5 November 2022 at Nkowankowa Stadium in Tzaneen. The awards will be preceded by a Gala dinner aimed at increasing the station\u2019s brand awareness and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13353,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13352\/revisions\/13353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}