{"id":2572,"date":"2018-05-21T07:16:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T07:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2018-05-21T07:16:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T07:16:08","slug":"sabc-mourns-the-passing-of-phillip-tabane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc-mourns-the-passing-of-phillip-tabane\/","title":{"rendered":"SABC MOURNS THE PASSING OF PHILLIP TABANE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/webmail.sabc.co.za\/owa\/attachment.ashx?id=RgAAAAAxFEHX6I2OTofG3BjbrXC9BwDXbFLBKaIgRbXl5BeE9N84AAANbkj2AACl5TlXMcNjRYAgWjYqon5VAAEFt4tAAAAJ&amp;attcnt=1&amp;attid0=BAAAAAAA&amp;attcid0=image001.png%4001D3E6E7.0E958470\" width=\"152\" height=\"109\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b><u>MEDIA STATEMENT<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b><u>SABC MOURNS THE PASSING OF PHILLIP TABANE<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>Johannesburg<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>&#8211;<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>Saturday, 19 May 2018<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">-The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) joins the South African citizens in mourning the passing of veteran guitarist and musician, Mr. Phillip Tabane.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Mr Tabane has contributed immensely to the South African music industry. One of his songs<\/span><span style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">was featured on SABC 2\u2019s popular soapie,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><i>Muvhango<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0as an opening title sequence. His world-class craft and legacy will remain one of the country\u2019s treasures which young aspiring musicians can draw inspiration from.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">The SABC Board, management and staff would like to send their heartfelt condolences to the Tabane family, his friends and fans.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">May his soul rest in peace.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>Ends<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>Media Enquiries<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>Mmoni Seapolelo<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>Acting Spokesperson<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>073\u00a0688 1590<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webmail.sabc.co.za\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=7xES5wL9BGSoyJee0RvSGJqmzL_lz0VStay6Rrz_z0a-oW1a6r7VCA..&amp;URL=mailto%3aseapolelomv%40sabc.co.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: windowtext;\"><b>seapolelomv@sabc.co.za<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA STATEMENT \u00a0 SABC MOURNS THE PASSING OF PHILLIP TABANE \u00a0 Johannesburg&#8211;Saturday, 19 May 2018-The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) joins the South African citizens in mourning the passing of veteran guitarist and musician, Mr. Phillip Tabane. Mr Tabane has contributed immensely to the South African music industry. One of his songs\u00a0was featured on SABC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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\/2572"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions\/2573"}],"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=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}