{"id":141324,"date":"2023-03-13T10:59:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T09:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/?p=141324"},"modified":"2023-03-13T10:59:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T09:59:31","slug":"sammy-moripe-also-known-as-dj-pencil-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/sammy-moripe-also-known-as-dj-pencil-has-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Moripe, also known as &#8220;DJ Pencil,&#8221; has passed away."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sammy Moripe, also known as &#8220;Pencil&#8221; from the Bacardi duo Pencil &amp; Zing Master, has passed away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Amapiano pioneer&#8217;s cause of death is currently unknown, but his passing was confirmed on social media and has been met with several tributes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One tweet announcing his death expressed condolences to the Moripe family and described his passing as a significant loss for the Atteridgeville and Pretoria townships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Amapiano not Barcadi. Pencil is one of the pathfinders of Amapiano. Tshwara is an early variant of Pretoria Amapiano.<\/p>&mdash; Phiwa Nkambule (@PhiwaNk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhiwaNk\/status\/1634315431728087040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 10, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Also another song of his &#39;Tshwara&#39; is the first Amapiano song to include vocals <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6PfxgmHCTV\">pic.twitter.com\/6PfxgmHCTV<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kasi Economy (@KasiEconomy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KasiEconomy\/status\/1634468701851328514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 11, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Also another song of his &#39;Tshwara&#39; is the first Amapiano song to include vocals <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6PfxgmHCTV\">pic.twitter.com\/6PfxgmHCTV<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kasi Economy (@KasiEconomy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KasiEconomy\/status\/1634468701851328514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 11, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sammy Moripe, also known as &#8220;Pencil&#8221; from the Bacardi duo Pencil &amp; Zing Master, has passed away. The Amapiano pioneer&#8217;s cause of death is currently unknown, but his passing was confirmed on social media and has been met with several tributes. One tweet announcing his death expressed condolences to the Moripe family and described his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5735],"class_list":["post-141324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-pencil"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}