{"id":225583,"date":"2026-02-28T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nangolo-to-face-experienced-mwadziwane\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:08:11","slug":"namibia-nangolo-to-face-experienced-mwadziwane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nangolo-to-face-experienced-mwadziwane\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Nangolo to Face Experienced Mwadziwane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>Flame &#8216;Special One&#8217; Nangolo will defend his WBO Africa super featherweight title against the experienced Zimbabwean Tinashe Mwadziwane on 2 May.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">AC Promotions in a press release issued this week said the fight, entitled &#8216;May Day&#8217; will be the headline act at a boxing bonanza that will feature several upcoming Namibian boxers at the Roman Catholic Hall on 2 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">&#8220;This championship bout marks an important step in Special One&#8217;s international campaign. Securing opponents for a WBO Africa title defence&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602260149.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flame &#8216;Special One&#8217; Nangolo will defend his WBO Africa super featherweight title against the experienced Zimbabwean Tinashe Mwadziwane on 2 May. AC Promotions in a press release issued this week said the fight, entitled &#8216;May Day&#8217; will be the headline act at a boxing bonanza that will feature several upcoming Namibian boxers at the Roman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":225584,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,24536,7127,53781,4706,724,20583,257,254],"class_list":["post-225583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-experienced","tag-face","tag-mwadziwane","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-nangolo","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\/225583","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=225583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}