{"id":48691,"date":"2026-04-12T15:58:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T15:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48691"},"modified":"2026-04-12T15:58:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T15:58:02","slug":"melvyn-matthews-weekend-special-hitmaker-dies-at-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48691","title":{"rendered":"Melvyn Matthews, &#039;Weekend Special&#039; hitmaker, dies at 67"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>Melvyn Matthews, the talented songwriter behind Brenda Fassie&#8217;s iconic Weekend Special, has passed away, leaving a lasting legacy in South African music.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/iol.co.za\/capeargus\/news\/2026-04-12-melvyn-matthews-weekend-special-hitmaker-dies-at-67\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melvyn Matthews, the talented songwriter behind Brenda Fassie&#8217;s iconic Weekend Special, has passed away, leaving a lasting legacy in South African music. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}