{"id":219970,"date":"2026-01-10T23:23:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-khalane-oozes-confidence-for-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T23:23:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:23:52","slug":"lesotho-khalane-oozes-confidence-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-khalane-oozes-confidence-for-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Khalane Oozes Confidence for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Athletics\u00a0coach, Samuel Khalane, is confident that his athletes will deliver improved performances this year and secure qualification for major international competitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Among the athletes he coaches are sprint sensation Mamakoli Senauane and the talented female sprinter and middle-distance runner Manqabang Tsibela.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The duo was recently announced as recipients of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Olympic Solidarity Athletes Scholarship Programme, which supports athletes on their path to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601090505.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athletics\u00a0coach, Samuel Khalane, is confident that his athletes will deliver improved performances this year and secure qualification for major international competitions. Among the athletes he coaches are sprint sensation Mamakoli Senauane and the talented female sprinter and middle-distance runner Manqabang Tsibela. The duo was recently announced as recipients of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Olympic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":219971,"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":[1406],"tags":[258,256,11665,53380,4717,1407,257,19580,254],"class_list":["post-219970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-confidence","tag-khalane","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-oozes","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/219970","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=219970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}