{"id":224070,"date":"2026-02-18T00:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/botswana-tennis-star-tinashe-secures-scholarship\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:12:19","slug":"botswana-tennis-star-tinashe-secures-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/botswana-tennis-star-tinashe-secures-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Tennis Star Tinashe Secures Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Gaborone \u2014 One of Botswana&#8217;s promising young tennis stars, Tinashe Phatshwane, has secured a one-year scholarship at the African Regional Training Centre in Sousse, Tunisia, courtesy of the Confederation of African Tennis (CAT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The 14-year-old&#8217;s move to North Africa comes just weeks after another young Botswana ace, Malak Macheng, enrolled at the same facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">While in Tunisia, Phatshwane will pursue his studies online and compete in both local and international tournaments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602170518.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 One of Botswana&#8217;s promising young tennis stars, Tinashe Phatshwane, has secured a one-year scholarship at the African Regional Training Centre in Sousse, Tunisia, courtesy of the Confederation of African Tennis (CAT). The 14-year-old&#8217;s move to North Africa comes just weeks after another young Botswana ace, Malak Macheng, enrolled at the same facility. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":224071,"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":[258,256,4718,257,6625,10429,254,10128,7678,21346,653],"class_list":["post-224070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-news","tag-scholarship","tag-secures","tag-south-africa-today","tag-star","tag-tennis","tag-tinashe","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\/224070","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=224070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}