{"id":225033,"date":"2026-02-25T00:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/southern-africa-mighty-warriors-through-to-cosafa-cup-semi-finals\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:59:12","slug":"southern-africa-mighty-warriors-through-to-cosafa-cup-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/southern-africa-mighty-warriors-through-to-cosafa-cup-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Mighty Warriors Through to Cosafa Cup Semi-Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The Zimbabwe women&#8217;s national football team, Mighty Warriors, booked their place in the Women&#8217;s COSAFA Cup semi-finals on Tuesday afternoon after edging Botswana 1-0 in their final Group B match at the Old Peter Mokaba Stadium in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s decisive victory was secured by veteran striker Rutendo Makore in the 65th-minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Makore&#8217;s goal was her second of the tournament, having also found the back of the net in Zimbabwe&#8217;s opening 2-0 win over Eswatini.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602240611.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbabwe women&#8217;s national football team, Mighty Warriors, booked their place in the Women&#8217;s COSAFA Cup semi-finals on Tuesday afternoon after edging Botswana 1-0 in their final Group B match at the Old Peter Mokaba Stadium in South Africa. Zimbabwe&#8217;s decisive victory was secured by veteran striker Rutendo Makore in the 65th-minute. Makore&#8217;s goal was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,9360,6674,14384,257,14292,254,7153,10304,421],"class_list":["post-225033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cosafa","tag-cup","tag-mighty","tag-news","tag-semifinals","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-warriors","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225033","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=225033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}