{"id":6725,"date":"2015-03-31T17:56:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T15:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/?p=6725"},"modified":"2020-06-02T15:14:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T13:14:41","slug":"webafrica-acquires-ghetto-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/general\/webafrica-acquires-ghetto-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Webafrica Acquires Ghetto Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a stroke of genius, Webafrica has expanded its horizons into the world of music with the acquisition of <a href=\"http:\/\/ghettorecords.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghetto Records<\/a> for an undisclosed sum.<\/p>\n<p>Webafrica CEO Tim Wyatt-Gunning says he\u2019s \u201csuper thrilled by a terrific new partnership which proves yet again that we are in touch with our customers and speak their language\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe couldn\u2019t be happier with our new biz partnerz Webafricizzle\u201d Says current Ghetto CEO, Jassie Rhymes.\u00a0\u201cWe be planning on drizzling the shizzle all over the nizzle for the slickest ISP in Africa\u201d, concludes Rhymes.<\/p>\n<p>On explaining the rationale behind the transaction, Wyatt-Gunning avoided speculation around any plans to launch a streaming service saying \u201cwhy would we want to do that? I think we\u2019ll leave that to Apple and Dr Dre. We\u2019re crazy about music though. For us, it\u2019s more about our cultural identity\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ghettorecords.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go check it out DAWG!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a stroke of genius, Webafrica has expanded its horizons into the world of music with the acquisition of Ghetto Records for an undisclosed sum. Webafrica CEO Tim Wyatt-Gunning says he\u2019s \u201csuper thrilled by a terrific new partnership which proves yet again that we are in touch with our customers and speak their language\u201d. \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":6729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,434],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/blog-banner.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdAWxt-1Kt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6725"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12336,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions\/12336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}