{"id":7074,"date":"2026-09-01T06:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mosrac.gov.zw\/?p=7074"},"modified":"2026-09-01T06:51:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:51:32","slug":"the-2nd-inqama-arts-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mosrac.gov.zw\/?p=7074","title":{"rendered":"The 2nd INQAMA Arts Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Matabeleland South Province | 28\u201329 August 2026, The 2nd INQAMA Arts Festival was held at Simbumbumbu Primary School in Chief Mathema, Gwanda District, bringing communities together to celebrate Zimbabwean culture.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Under the theme \u201cReclaiming our Roots \u2013 Shaping our Future,\u201d the festival promoted the preservation and passing on of cultural traditions.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The event was attended by the Hon Minister for Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Hon A. Nguluvhe, Guest of Honour Chief Siphoso Dlodlo, provincial and district officials, and other invited guests.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Highlights included exhibitions of traditional foods, crafts and artworks, as well as performances by Amatshitshi, community groups and school children.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">About 3,000 people attended, including approximately 1,800 females and 1,200 males, with additional walk-in visitors.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">INQAMA celebrated Zimbabwe\u2019s indigenous knowledge, traditions and creative expression, while encouraging young people to embrace their roots.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matabeleland South Province | 28\u201329 August 2026, The 2nd INQAMA Arts Festival was held at Simbumbumbu Primary School in Chief Mathema, Gwanda District, bringing communities together to celebrate Zimbabwean culture. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mosrac.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mosrac.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mosrac.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosrac.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosrac.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosrac.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7077,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosrac.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions\/7077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosrac.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mosrac.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosrac.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosrac.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}