{"id":409951,"date":"2011-04-30T13:31:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T13:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/30\/offices-raided-over-play\/"},"modified":"2011-04-30T13:31:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T13:31:40","slug":"offices-raided-over-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/30\/offices-raided-over-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Offices Raided Over Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"14.9253666954\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/450a559cnation180.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"The Nation (Nairobi)\" title=\"Visit The Nation (Nairobi)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kitsepile Nyathi<\/p>\n<p>29 April 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Harare \u2014 Zimbabwe police have raided the offices of the country&#8217;s largest arts festival after it opened with a play depicting dictatorship in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Four organisers of the Harare International Festival of the Arts were taken for questioning by the police and were later released without any charges.<\/p>\n<p>But the organisers believe the arrest was in connection with the satire that depicted an ailing, elderly leader haunted by protesters.<\/p>\n<p>The play, titled Treasure, also touched on corruption in diamonds trade and police brutality, which resonates with many Zimbabweans.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201104300015.html\" title=\"Offices Raided Over Play\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Offices Raided Over Play<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Kitsepile Nyathi 29 April 2011 Harare \u2014 Zimbabwe police have raided the offices of the country&#8217;s largest arts festival after it opened with a play depicting dictatorship in Africa. Four organisers of the Harare International Festival of the Arts were taken for questioning by the police and were later released without any charges. But the organisers believe the arrest was in connection with the satire that depicted an ailing, elderly leader haunted by protesters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":409952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-409951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Offices Raided Over Play - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\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.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/30\/offices-raided-over-play\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Offices Raided Over Play - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Kitsepile Nyathi 29 April 2011 Harare \u2014 Zimbabwe police have raided the offices of the country&#039;s largest arts festival after it opened with a play depicting dictatorship in Africa. 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