{"id":8253,"date":"2021-10-23T01:33:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T01:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/grace-chingas-tombstone-vandalised"},"modified":"2021-10-24T01:53:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T01:53:28","slug":"grace-chingas-tombstone-vandalised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/grace-chingas-tombstone-vandalised","title":{"rendered":"Grace Chinga\u2019s tombstone vandalised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Thugs have vandalised the tombstone of late gospel musician Grace Chinga at HHI cemetery in Blantyre. Chinga\u2019s son Steve Spesho has confirmed and has described the vandals as people with bad intentions. According to Spesho, this is a second the tombstone has been vandalised only that the during first time the damage was minimal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know what they want. We also don\u2019t know how the vandals were not noticed by security officers considering that you can\u2019t damage such a big tombstone without making noise. Anyway, God is good all the time,\u201d wrote Spesho on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Chinga died in March 2016 at the age of 37. She was a famous musician with many hit songs including \u2018Thandizo Langa\u2019 which was voted song of the year in Malawi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. Thugs have vandalised the tombstone of late gospel musician Grace Chinga at HHI cemetery in Blantyre. Chinga\u2019s son Steve Spesho has confirmed and has described the vandals as people with bad intentions. 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