{"id":202159,"date":"2025-07-11T02:17:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T00:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/africa-sables-storm-into-rugby-africa-cup-semis-with-commanding-win-over-morocco\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T02:17:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T00:17:55","slug":"africa-sables-storm-into-rugby-africa-cup-semis-with-commanding-win-over-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/africa-sables-storm-into-rugby-africa-cup-semis-with-commanding-win-over-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Sables Storm Into Rugby Africa Cup Semis With Commanding Win Over Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s senior men&#8217;s rugby team, the Sables sent a resounding message to their rivals at the 2025 Rugby Africa Cup on Tuesday, dispatching Morocco with a dominant 43-8 victory in a quarter-final showdown at the Nelson Mandela National Stadium in Nambole, Kampala.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The win not only confirmed Zimbabwe&#8217;s place in the semi-finals but reinforced their ambitions of clinching the continental crown and with it, automatic qualification for the 2027 Rugby World Cup in Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">The tournament wraps up on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507100660.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s senior men&#8217;s rugby team, the Sables sent a resounding message to their rivals at the 2025 Rugby Africa Cup on Tuesday, dispatching Morocco with a dominant 43-8 victory in a quarter-final showdown at the Nelson Mandela National Stadium in Nambole, Kampala. The win not only confirmed Zimbabwe&#8217;s place in the semi-finals but reinforced their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,19829,6674,5609,257,8495,7971,7128,254,11234,6660,421],"class_list":["post-202159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commanding","tag-cup","tag-morocco","tag-news","tag-rugby","tag-sables","tag-semis","tag-south-africa-today","tag-storm","tag-win","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202159","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=202159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}