{"id":30908,"date":"2026-04-06T11:50:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30908"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:50:31","slug":"sas-ladysmith-black-mambazos-albert-mazibuko-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-ladysmith-black-mambazos-albert-mazibuko-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s Ladysmith Black Mambazo\u2019s Albert Mazibuko passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) retired, long-standing member of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Albert Mazibuko, has passed away at aged 77 in KwaZulu-Natal Province.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The group\u2019s Manager Xolani Majozi confirmed that Mazibuko passed away in the early hours of Monday morning after battling an illness.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">This as the Isicathamiya group is on tour in the United States.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">In a statement, the Ladysmith Black Mambazo says Mazibuko was known as \u201cthe librarian\u201d and was the custodian of the group\u2019s history.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Born in Ladysmith, Mazibuko joined Ladysmith Black Mambazo in 1969 and dedicated more than five decades of his life to music.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30909,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-30908","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Albert Mazibuko, has passed away","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30910,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30908\/revisions\/30910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=30908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}