{"id":200408,"date":"2025-06-18T13:36:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-desert-jewels-singapore-locked-in-thrilling-draw\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T13:36:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:36:01","slug":"namibia-desert-jewels-singapore-locked-in-thrilling-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-desert-jewels-singapore-locked-in-thrilling-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Desert Jewels, Singapore Locked in Thrilling Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">An intense, physical and tightly contested encounter had spectators on the edge of their seats as Namibia&#8217;s Desert Jewels battled to a dramatic 49-49 draw against Singapore in their third match of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Netball Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The match, held at the Al Nasr Sports Hall, marked Namibia&#8217;s first tie of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">The game was a constant tug-of-war, with possession swinging back and forth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Singapore opened the scoring and edged the first quarter 13-11, demonstrating speed and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506180228.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>An intense, physical and tightly contested encounter had spectators on the edge of their seats as Namibia&#8217;s Desert Jewels battled to a dramatic 49-49 draw against Singapore in their third match of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Netball Cup. The match, held at the Al Nasr Sports Hall, marked Namibia&#8217;s first tie of the tournament. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,10117,6981,40573,7812,4706,724,257,4475,254,26544],"class_list":["post-200408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-desert","tag-draw","tag-jewels","tag-locked","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-singapore","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thrilling"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/200408","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=200408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}