{"id":201941,"date":"2025-07-08T14:53:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T12:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-banyana-off-to-a-flying-start-with-win-over-ghana\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T14:53:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T12:53:55","slug":"ghana-banyana-off-to-a-flying-start-with-win-over-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-banyana-off-to-a-flying-start-with-win-over-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Banyana Off to a Flying Start With Win Over Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Linda Motlhalo and Jermaine Seoposenwe scored in the first half to give Banyana an early lead in Group C.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ghana hit the crossbar and tested the keeper, but could not stop South Africa from securing a strong start.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Banyana Banyana have kicked off their Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations campaign with a solid 2-0 win over Ghana at Honneur Stadium in Oujda, Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">It was a strong first-half showing from South Africa, who are looking to defend the title they won in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Linda Motlhalo gave Banyana&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507080121.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Motlhalo and Jermaine Seoposenwe scored in the first half to give Banyana an early lead in Group C. Ghana hit the crossbar and tested the keeper, but could not stop South Africa from securing a strong start. Banyana Banyana have kicked off their Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations campaign with a solid 2-0 win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":201942,"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":[4507],"tags":[258,256,13475,9805,4508,4509,257,254,7138,6660],"class_list":["post-201941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-banyana","tag-flying","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-start","tag-win"],"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\/201941","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}