{"id":205896,"date":"2025-08-30T17:43:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T15:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-afrobasket2025-angola-wins-12th-trophy-and-returns-to-the-african-top\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T17:43:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T15:43:58","slug":"angola-afrobasket2025-angola-wins-12th-trophy-and-returns-to-the-african-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-afrobasket2025-angola-wins-12th-trophy-and-returns-to-the-african-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Afrobasket&#8217;2025 &#8211; Angola Wins 12th Trophy and Returns to the African Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Luanda \u2014 Angola won its 12th continental title on Sunday, beating Mali by 70-43, in the final game of Afrobasket2025, at Kilamba pavilion, in Luanda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">This victory, in a competition commemorating the jubilee of national Independence, to be celebrated on November 11, was not just a title, it symbolizes the rebirth of national basketball and the return to the continental throne<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">In the unprecedented final, against an opponent with modest trophies, it only has a third place in its history, Angola&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508260630.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda \u2014 Angola won its 12th continental title on Sunday, beating Mali by 70-43, in the final game of Afrobasket2025, at Kilamba pavilion, in Luanda. This victory, in a competition commemorating the jubilee of national Independence, to be celebrated on November 11, was not just a title, it symbolizes the rebirth of national basketball and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":205897,"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":[4262],"tags":[23323,258,256,4380,52217,3941,4263,257,5068,254,7319,13507,6552],"class_list":["post-205896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-12th","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-afrobasket2025","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-news","tag-returns","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top","tag-trophy","tag-wins"],"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\/205896","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=205896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}