{"id":476,"date":"2025-11-06T15:55:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vision4afrikanowmedia.co.za\/Newspaper\/?p=476"},"modified":"2025-11-06T15:58:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:58:31","slug":"xitsonga-queens-dancing-with-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vision4afrikanowmedia.co.za\/Newspaper\/2025\/11\/06\/xitsonga-queens-dancing-with-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Xitsonga Queens: Dancing with Purpose!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"738\" height=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/vision4afrikanowmedia.co.za\/Newspaper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000370649.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vision4afrikanowmedia.co.za\/Newspaper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000370649.jpg 738w, https:\/\/vision4afrikanowmedia.co.za\/Newspaper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000370649-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When passion meets purpose, greatness is born!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meet the Xitsonga Queens \u2014 three talented teens,Muhluri Mangalana, Vutlhari Rikhotso and Xiave Maluleke, dancing proudly under EMR Vision Foundation. What started as a simple school performance has grown into a beautiful movement celebrating Xitsonga culture, identity, and pride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the support of their parents and mentorship from Mr. Eric Magamana Rikhotso, Founder of EMR Vision Foundation, the Queens have become cultural ambassadors, using dance to inspire and connect their community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through EMR Vision Foundation, these young dancers are part of a bigger vision \u2014 one that empowers youth, strengthens families, and preserves culture through projects in education, sports, agriculture, and social development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their story reminds us that every small beginning can lead to something powerful. The Xitsonga Queens are not just dancing \u2014 they\u2019re leading a movement of heritage, hope, and pride! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When passion meets purpose, greatness is born! Meet the Xitsonga Queens \u2014 three talented teens,Muhluri Mangalana, Vutlhari Rikhotso<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vision4afrikanowmedia.co.za\/Newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vision4afrikanowmedia.co.za\/Newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vision4afrikanowmedia.co.za\/Newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vision4afrikanowmedia.co.za\/Newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vision4afrikanowmedia.co.za\/Newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vision4afrikanowmedia.co.za\/Newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/vision4afrikanowmedia.co.za\/Newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vision4afrikanowmedia.co.za\/Newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vision4afrikanowmedia.co.za\/Newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vision4afrikanowmedia.co.za\/Newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}