{"id":206183,"date":"2025-09-03T18:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/africa-namibia-gears-up-for-africa-aquatics-zone-iv-champs\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T18:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:04:05","slug":"africa-namibia-gears-up-for-africa-aquatics-zone-iv-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/africa-namibia-gears-up-for-africa-aquatics-zone-iv-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Namibia Gears Up for Africa Aquatics Zone Iv Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em>A team of 23 swimmers, aged between 11 and 23, will represent Namibia at the XXI Africa Aquatics Zone IV Championships in Manzini, Eswatini from 3 to 6 September.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Both teams will have the task to defend their championship winning titles from the 2024 Zone IV Championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">According to a press release issued by the Namibia Aquatics Sports Federation, pool events will take place from 3 to 6 September, while the Open Water Championship will conclude the competition on 7 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">&#8220;Namibia&#8217;s young&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509030402.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of 23 swimmers, aged between 11 and 23, will represent Namibia at the XXI Africa Aquatics Zone IV Championships in Manzini, Eswatini from 3 to 6 September. Both teams will have the task to defend their championship winning titles from the 2024 Zone IV Championships. According to a press release issued by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":206184,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,42508,11203,14065,4706,724,257,254,7073],"class_list":["post-206183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aquatics","tag-champs","tag-gears","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zone"],"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\/206183","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=206183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}