{"id":202417,"date":"2025-07-14T20:37:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/africa-botswana-leave-it-late-to-down-tunisia-in-wafcon-group-b-thriller\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T20:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:37:31","slug":"africa-botswana-leave-it-late-to-down-tunisia-in-wafcon-group-b-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/africa-botswana-leave-it-late-to-down-tunisia-in-wafcon-group-b-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Botswana Leave It Late to Down Tunisia in Wafcon Group B Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><em>Botswana struck a dramatic injury-time winner to edge Tunisia 2-1 in Casablanca on Sunday, but have to wait to discover if they have progressed to the quarter-finals of the TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Despite the late heroics from Gaonyadiwe Ontlametse, the Mares&#8217; hopes of a top-two finish were dashed as Nigeria and Algeria played out a goalless draw in the group&#8217;s other game, ensuring both advanced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">With both Botswana and Tunisia knowing only a win could offer&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507140783.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana struck a dramatic injury-time winner to edge Tunisia 2-1 in Casablanca on Sunday, but have to wait to discover if they have progressed to the quarter-finals of the TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) 2025. Despite the late heroics from Gaonyadiwe Ontlametse, the Mares&#8217; hopes of a top-two finish were dashed as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":202418,"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":[642],"tags":[258,256,4718,5192,8262,6775,257,254,14053,4703,653,24869],"class_list":["post-202417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-group","tag-late","tag-leave","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thriller","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-wafcon"],"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\/202417","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}