{"id":17417,"date":"2019-12-30T17:53:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T15:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=17417"},"modified":"2019-12-30T17:53:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T15:53:49","slug":"govt-denies-blocking-winky-d-from-being-interviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/govt-denies-blocking-winky-d-from-being-interviewed","title":{"rendered":"Govt Denies Blocking Winky D From Being Interviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has dismissed reports that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/Zimdancehall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zimdancehall<\/a>\u00a0kingpin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/Winky_D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Winky D<\/a>, has been blocked from being interviewed on all local radio stations ahead of the launch of his album set for the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on its Twitter handle this Monday afternoon, the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services said:<\/p>\n<p>We have noted an article on an online publication making a false claim that Govt has banned one of our local artists from being interviewed on national radio. These are unfounded falsehoods. Members of the Media are advised to fact-check with us on related matters.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier reports had claimed that Winky D\u2019s interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/Chamvary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chamvary<\/a>\u00a0on Star FM today was cancelled and his music was set to be banned on local radio stations because of his song, Ijipita.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has dismissed reports that\u00a0Zimdancehall\u00a0kingpin,\u00a0Winky D, has been blocked from being interviewed on all local radio stations ahead of the launch of his album set for the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) on Tuesday. In a statement posted on its Twitter handle this Monday afternoon, the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services said: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[191,912],"class_list":{"0":"post-17417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-culture-and-art","9":"tag-culture-and-art","10":"tag-winky-d"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Govt Denies Blocking Winky D From Being Interviewed - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The government has dismissed reports that\u00a0Zimdancehall\u00a0kingpin,\u00a0Winky D, has been blocked from being interviewed on all local radio stations ahead\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/govt-denies-blocking-winky-d-from-being-interviewed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt Denies Blocking Winky D From Being Interviewed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The government has dismissed reports that\u00a0Zimdancehall\u00a0kingpin,\u00a0Winky D, has been blocked from being interviewed on all local radio stations ahead\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/govt-denies-blocking-winky-d-from-being-interviewed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-30T15:53:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/Winky-D.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"402\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/govt-denies-blocking-winky-d-from-being-interviewed\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/govt-denies-blocking-winky-d-from-being-interviewed\",\"name\":\"Govt Denies Blocking Winky D From Being Interviewed - 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