{"id":64811,"date":"2022-08-22T16:36:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T14:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster"},"modified":"2022-08-22T18:58:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T16:58:04","slug":"simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster","title":{"rendered":"Simon Mutambi Disowns Bucket Of Maize Entrance Charge Poster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Sungura musician Simon Mutambi has distanced himself from a poster that circulated on social media platforms of a show in which he was charging a bucket of maize for entrance.<\/p>\n

According to the poster, Mutambi was scheduled to stage a live performance on 21 August at Kamwanza Beer Hall in Rafingora.<\/p>\n

The admission requirement for the show was written \u201cor one bucket of maize (chibage)\u201d.<\/p>\n

But speaking to H-Metro, Mutambi said he wasn\u2019t aware of the show and blamed his detractors for creating and circulating the poster. Said Mutambi:<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t even know about that show. I think there are people who want to tarnish my image.<\/p>\n

However, a source close to Mutambi\u2019s Cobra Kings band told Pindula News that the promoter of the show was the one who was asking showgoers to pay maize as entrance fees. Said the source:<\/p>\n

These guys (the band) were given a flat fee to perform at that place. Whoever is the promoter of the show, is the one who will have people pay buckets of maize.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s because, in that area, people are farmers. So they may not have hard cash, but they can bring bags of maize.<\/p>\n

That will also happen even for beer sales. There\u2019s nothing different here. Isn\u2019t a bucket of maize around $6? So [effectively] he will be charging more than he usually charges [in cash].<\/p>\n

What\u2019s happening here is it\u2019s not the band that\u2019s going to be taking money here. The band was given a flat fee and the promoter holding the event is the one who comes from that area.<\/p>\n

He is aware of how people in his surroundings can pay up. Because money may be an uphill task for them.<\/p>\n

There are usually scenarios like this in different areas. There\u2019s nothing awkward about this anyway.<\/p>\n

In other places sometimes they go there and the person receiving payments is the one who knows about the area\u2026<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say people have gold but they have no hard cash \u2013 maybe you can say a gram of gold for entry.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. Sungura musician Simon Mutambi has distanced himself from a poster that circulated on social media platforms of a show in which he was charging a bucket of maize for entrance. According to the poster, Mutambi was scheduled to stage a live performance on 21 August at Kamwanza Beer Hall in Rafingora. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":64810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,35,15],"tags":[1493,2189,11453,19],"class_list":["post-64811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","tag-simon-mutambi","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"\nSimon Mutambi Disowns Bucket Of Maize Entrance Charge Poster - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sungura musician Simon Mutambi has distanced himself from a poster that circulated on social media platforms of a show i ...\" \/>\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\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Simon Mutambi Disowns Bucket Of Maize Entrance Charge Poster\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sungura musician Simon Mutambi has distanced himself from a poster that circulated on social media platforms of a show i ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-22T14:36:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-22T16:58:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_32-6303b58197397.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1100\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"593\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Simon Mutambi Disowns Bucket Of Maize Entrance Charge Poster\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-22T14:36:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-22T16:58:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster\"},\"wordCount\":370,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_32-6303b58197397.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zimbabwe\",\"Simon Mutambi\",\"Zimbabwe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster\",\"name\":\"Simon Mutambi Disowns Bucket Of Maize Entrance Charge Poster - zimbabwe\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_32-6303b58197397.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-22T14:36:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-22T16:58:04+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Sungura musician Simon Mutambi has distanced himself from a poster that circulated on social media platforms of a show i ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_32-6303b58197397.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_32-6303b58197397.jpg\",\"width\":1100,\"height\":593,\"caption\":\"Simon Mutambi Disowns Bucket Of Maize Entrance Charge Poster\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Simon Mutambi Disowns Bucket Of Maize Entrance Charge Poster\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/\",\"name\":\"zimbabwe\",\"description\":\"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Simon Mutambi Disowns Bucket Of Maize Entrance Charge Poster - zimbabwe","description":"Sungura musician Simon Mutambi has distanced himself from a poster that circulated on social media platforms of a show i ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Simon Mutambi Disowns Bucket Of Maize Entrance Charge Poster","og_description":"Sungura musician Simon Mutambi has distanced himself from a poster that circulated on social media platforms of a show i ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster","og_site_name":"zimbabwe","article_published_time":"2022-08-22T14:36:10+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-08-22T16:58:04+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1100,"height":593,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_32-6303b58197397.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Simon Mutambi Disowns Bucket Of Maize Entrance Charge Poster","datePublished":"2022-08-22T14:36:10+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-22T16:58:04+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster"},"wordCount":370,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_32-6303b58197397.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Zimbabwe","Simon Mutambi","Zimbabwe"],"articleSection":["all news","Economy","homepage-english","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster","name":"Simon Mutambi Disowns Bucket Of Maize Entrance Charge Poster - zimbabwe","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_32-6303b58197397.jpg","datePublished":"2022-08-22T14:36:10+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-22T16:58:04+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Sungura musician Simon Mutambi has distanced himself from a poster that circulated on social media platforms of a show i ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_32-6303b58197397.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_32-6303b58197397.jpg","width":1100,"height":593,"caption":"Simon Mutambi Disowns Bucket Of Maize Entrance Charge Poster"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/simon-mutambi-disowns-bucket-of-maize-entrance-charge-poster#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Simon Mutambi Disowns Bucket Of Maize Entrance Charge Poster"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/","name":"zimbabwe","description":"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}