{"id":224823,"date":"2026-02-24T00:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-the-mares-in-camp-for-cosafa\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T00:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:54:53","slug":"botswana-the-mares-in-camp-for-cosafa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-the-mares-in-camp-for-cosafa\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: The Mares in Camp for Cosafa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Gaborone \u2014 The senior women national team, The Mares has reported for camp on Sunday to prepare for the COSAFA women&#8217;s championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">This 13th edition will be held in Polokwane, South Africa from February 18 to March 1 and The Mares are in Group B with eSwatini, Zambia and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">Their opening match will be against Zambia at Seshego Stadium on February 19, and for their next clash they will face eSwatini at Old Peter Mokaba Stadium on February 22 then face Zimbabwe at Old Peter Mokaba&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602100332.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 The senior women national team, The Mares has reported for camp on Sunday to prepare for the COSAFA women&#8217;s championships. This 13th edition will be held in Polokwane, South Africa from February 18 to March 1 and The Mares are in Group B with eSwatini, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Their opening match will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":224824,"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":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,6835,9360,42558,257,254],"class_list":["post-224823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-camp","tag-cosafa","tag-mares","tag-news","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\/224823","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=224823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}