{"id":226806,"date":"2026-03-13T13:35:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-golden-oldies-set-for-upington-friendlies\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:35:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:35:35","slug":"namibia-golden-oldies-set-for-upington-friendlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-golden-oldies-set-for-upington-friendlies\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Golden Oldies Set for Upington Friendlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\"><em>Namibia&#8217;s Golden Oldies football club is gearing up for important friendly matches at Upington.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">South Africa to play their counterparts in what is expected to be a mouth-watering encounter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">This follows an invitation from the South Africa Football Association (Safa) ZF Mqcawu to the Namibian Golden Oldies FC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Golden Oldies chairperson John Ramakutla says the club received an invitation for a networking and friendly match scheduled for 27 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603130345.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>Namibia&#8217;s Golden Oldies football club is gearing up for important friendly matches at Upington. South Africa to play their counterparts in what is expected to be a mouth-watering encounter. This follows an invitation from the South Africa Football Association (Safa) ZF Mqcawu to the Namibian Golden Oldies FC. Golden Oldies chairperson John Ramakutla says the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226807,"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":[258,256,17202,9604,4706,724,257,52333,7106,254,32905],"class_list":["post-226806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-friendlies","tag-golden","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-oldies","tag-set","tag-south-africa-today","tag-upington"],"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\/226806","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=226806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}