{"id":204534,"date":"2025-08-12T21:49:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/africa-kutumela-the-catalyst-in-bafana-bafanas-thrilling-win-over-guinea\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T21:49:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:49:52","slug":"africa-kutumela-the-catalyst-in-bafana-bafanas-thrilling-win-over-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/africa-kutumela-the-catalyst-in-bafana-bafanas-thrilling-win-over-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Kutumela the Catalyst in Bafana Bafana&#8217;s Thrilling Win Over Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\"><em>South Africa&#8217;s Thabiso Kutumela was the heartbeat of a thrilling 2-1 win over Guinea &#8212; a performance that not only earned him the TotalEnergies Man of the Match award but also reaffirmed his status as one of the team&#8217;s driving forces in the tournament.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The Richards Bay FC midfielder delivered a masterclass in vision, movement, and precision, scoring one goal and setting up another in a game that swung from control to chaos before Bafana Bafana finally sealed the points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\"><strong>A Leader in the Final&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508120040.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s Thabiso Kutumela was the heartbeat of a thrilling 2-1 win over Guinea &#8212; a performance that not only earned him the TotalEnergies Man of the Match award but also reaffirmed his status as one of the team&#8217;s driving forces in the tournament. The Richards Bay FC midfielder delivered a masterclass in vision, movement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204535,"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":[1118],"tags":[258,256,4348,29172,7130,4715,1124,52086,257,254,26544,6660],"class_list":["post-204534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bafana","tag-bafanas","tag-catalyst","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-kutumela","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thrilling","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\/204534","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=204534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}