{"id":209189,"date":"2025-10-07T23:53:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/botswana-malak-back-home-from-tunisia\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T23:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:53:57","slug":"botswana-malak-back-home-from-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/botswana-malak-back-home-from-tunisia\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Malak Back Home From Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Gaborone \u2014 Tennis player, Malak Macheng returned home from Tunisia where she competed for the first time in the Masters Tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Malak, who is the first Motswana female to represent the country at the high profile tournament, finished in seventh position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Welcoming Malak at the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport on Monday, Minister of Sport and Arts, Jacob Kelebeng applauded her for representing the country well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">He said Malak was a promising tennis superstar as evidenced by her&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510070526.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>Gaborone \u2014 Tennis player, Malak Macheng returned home from Tunisia where she competed for the first time in the Masters Tournament. Malak, who is the first Motswana female to represent the country at the high profile tournament, finished in seventh position. Welcoming Malak at the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport on Monday, Minister of Sport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":209190,"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":[258,256,4718,8849,52511,257,254,4703,653],"class_list":["post-209189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-home","tag-malak","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"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\/209189","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=209189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}