{"id":177254,"date":"2024-07-25T14:23:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T12:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/zimbabwe-can-sables-finally-get-past-namibia\/"},"modified":"2024-07-25T14:23:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T12:23:59","slug":"zimbabwe-can-sables-finally-get-past-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/zimbabwe-can-sables-finally-get-past-namibia\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Can Sables Finally Get Past Namibia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Sables coach Piet Benade has spent the better part of the last 72 hours working on his players&#8217; mental strength as Zimbabwe prepares to face their biggest test yet at the ongoing Africa Cup Rugby tournament in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The Sables will clash against perennial foes Namibia in a semi-final showdown which has been dubbed the &#8220;final before the final&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">A rare victory over Namibia will take Benade and his men into Saturday&#8217;s final against the winner of the other semi-final tie pitting Algeria against&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407250246.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sables coach Piet Benade has spent the better part of the last 72 hours working on his players&#8217; mental strength as Zimbabwe prepares to face their biggest test yet at the ongoing Africa Cup Rugby tournament in Uganda. The Sables will clash against perennial foes Namibia in a semi-final showdown which has been dubbed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":177255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,8415,4706,724,257,7971,254,4686],"class_list":["post-177254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-finally","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-sables","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}