{"id":226406,"date":"2026-03-09T01:22:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-gaborone-derby-unpacked-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T01:22:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:22:55","slug":"botswana-gaborone-derby-unpacked-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-gaborone-derby-unpacked-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Gaborone Derby Unpacked &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Gaborone \u2014 All sports rivalries have their beginnings; a match or moment that sparks decades and long battles for bragging rights between rival supporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">For Gaborone rivals, Gaborone United (GU) and Township Rollers, the rivalry dates back to the mid-1970s when clashes on the pitch featured the likes of Boniface &#8216;Wonder&#8217; Tape, Nicolas &#8216;Lele&#8217; Sebele, Thomas &#8216;Zero&#8217; Johnson and Horatio &#8216;Chipa&#8217; Mahloane for GU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Rollers, however fielded their own galaxy of stars including Mulalu &#8216;Walktall&#8217; Molalu,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603060292.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 All sports rivalries have their beginnings; a match or moment that sparks decades and long battles for bragging rights between rival supporters. For Gaborone rivals, Gaborone United (GU) and Township Rollers, the rivalry dates back to the mid-1970s when clashes on the pitch featured the likes of Boniface &#8216;Wonder&#8217; Tape, Nicolas &#8216;Lele&#8217; Sebele, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226407,"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":[258,256,42655,4718,2462,8833,2858,257,254,43863],"class_list":["post-226406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-derby","tag-gaborone","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unpacked"],"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\/226406","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=226406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}