{"id":203160,"date":"2025-07-24T14:43:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-tel-one-beats-log-leaders-simba-bhora-as-fc-platinum-close-gap\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:43:57","slug":"zimbabwe-tel-one-beats-log-leaders-simba-bhora-as-fc-platinum-close-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-tel-one-beats-log-leaders-simba-bhora-as-fc-platinum-close-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Tel One Beats Log Leaders Simba Bhora, As FC Platinum Close Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Simba Bhora&#8217;s ten-match unbeaten run came to an end on Wednesday after they were handed a 2-0 defeat by Tel One at Ascot Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The Wifi Boys&#8217; two goals came in the second half through Milton Chimedza and Washington Navaya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">So important was the win for Tel One that it reduced the gap between them and Simba Bhora to 6 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Tel One is now sitting in position 5 on the log with 37 points, the same as third and fourth place occupiers FC Platinum and Scottland, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Simba Bhora, however,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507240206.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>Simba Bhora&#8217;s ten-match unbeaten run came to an end on Wednesday after they were handed a 2-0 defeat by Tel One at Ascot Stadium. The Wifi Boys&#8217; two goals came in the second half through Milton Chimedza and Washington Navaya. So important was the win for Tel One that it reduced the gap between them [&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":[258,256,8798,41958,6748,12910,4381,12186,257,4645,19549,254,37393,4686,421],"class_list":["post-203160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beats","tag-bhora","tag-close","tag-gap","tag-leaders","tag-log","tag-news","tag-platinum","tag-simba","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tel","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203160","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=203160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203160\/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=203160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}