{"id":193023,"date":"2025-03-07T06:47:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T04:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-hanekom-conquers-southern-african-challenge\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T06:47:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T04:47:45","slug":"namibia-hanekom-conquers-southern-african-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-hanekom-conquers-southern-african-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Hanekom Conquers Southern African Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>Namibia&#8217;s top junior squash player Francois Hanekom excelled at the Technifibre Bloemfontein Open over the weekend, winning the gold medal in the boys under 14 category.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The 13-year-old Hanekom won all his matches in straight sets to reach the final where he beat South Africa&#8217;s top-ranked player Codey Abrahams in straight sets to win the title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">According to Hanekom&#8217;s father, Francois senior, the Bloemfontein Open is the biggest junior squash tournament in Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">&#8220;The Techifibre Bloemfontein Open&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503050227.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>Namibia&#8217;s top junior squash player Francois Hanekom excelled at the Technifibre Bloemfontein Open over the weekend, winning the gold medal in the boys under 14 category. The 13-year-old Hanekom won all his matches in straight sets to reach the final where he beat South Africa&#8217;s top-ranked player Codey Abrahams in straight sets to win the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193024,"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":[258,256,4380,7485,41076,26011,4706,724,257,254,7153],"class_list":["post-193023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-challenge","tag-conquers","tag-hanekom","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern"],"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\/193023","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=193023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}