{"id":226001,"date":"2026-03-04T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-brave-gladiators-welcomed-home-as-heroes\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:17:00","slug":"namibia-brave-gladiators-welcomed-home-as-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-brave-gladiators-welcomed-home-as-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Brave Gladiators Welcomed Home As Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>The Namibian nation was still basking in the glow of the Brave Gladiators&#8217; triumph after a heroes&#8217; welcome and official reception at State House on Monday night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Namibia made history by beating South Africa 2-1 to win the Cosafa Women&#8217;s Championship for the first time on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">A whirlwind tour on arrival in Windhoek ended as the champions were feted by president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah and other Cabinet ministers at State House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Nandi-Ndaitwah said the team had united the nation by making&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603040309.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>The Namibian nation was still basking in the glow of the Brave Gladiators&#8217; triumph after a heroes&#8217; welcome and official reception at State House on Monday night. Namibia made history by beating South Africa 2-1 to win the Cosafa Women&#8217;s Championship for the first time on Sunday. A whirlwind tour on arrival in Windhoek ended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226002,"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":[258,256,12113,13576,9171,8849,4706,724,257,254,18532],"class_list":["post-226001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brave","tag-gladiators","tag-heroes","tag-home","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-welcomed"],"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\/226001","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=226001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}