{"id":54060,"date":"2017-09-25T08:56:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T06:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=54060"},"modified":"2017-09-25T08:56:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T06:56:38","slug":"south-africa-win-cosafa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/09\/25\/south-africa-win-cosafa\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa win Cosafa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s Banyana Banyana secured the Cosafa Women\u2019s Championship title after recording a 2-1 win over Zimbabwe in Bulawayo Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>After a bright start from Banyana, it was Zimbabwe who had the first chance as Marjory Nyaumwe headed wide of the target.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe shot-stopper Dzingari had to be at her best after 35 minutes as she produced two saves to deny Thembi Kgatlana and Mbane.<\/p>\n<p>However, the South Africans broke the deadlock on the stroke of half-time as Leandra Smeda played in Kgatlana, who made no mistake from close range.<\/p>\n<p>The Zimbabweans pushed for an equaliser upon resumption of the second-half, but they were struggling to carve out clear-cut chances.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe pushed for an equaliser and they were eventually rewarded in the 73rd minute as Makore nodded home. That was her 10th goal of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>However, South Africa hit back in stoppage time when Leandra Smeda found the back of the net, heading home Essau\u2019s cross.<strong>\u2014Kick-Off<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s Banyana Banyana secured the Cosafa Women\u2019s Championship title after recording a 2-1 win over Zimbabwe in Bulawayo Sunday. After a bright start from Banyana, it was Zimbabwe who had the first chance as Marjory Nyaumwe headed wide of the target. Zimbabwe shot-stopper Dzingari had to be at her best after 35 minutes as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54064,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54060\/revisions\/54064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}