{"id":233694,"date":"2026-05-19T04:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-zimbabwe-botswanas-tariq-babitseng-elected-cosafa-president-as-new-executive-committee-confirmed-in-harare\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T04:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:34:16","slug":"botswana-zimbabwe-botswanas-tariq-babitseng-elected-cosafa-president-as-new-executive-committee-confirmed-in-harare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-zimbabwe-botswanas-tariq-babitseng-elected-cosafa-president-as-new-executive-committee-confirmed-in-harare\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana\/Zimbabwe: Botswana&#8217;s Tariq Babitseng Elected Cosafa President As New Executive Committee Confirmed in Harare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) concluded its 2026 Elective General Assembly (EGA) in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Sunday, 17 May, with Botswana&#8217;s Tariq Babitseng elected unopposed as COSAFA President, alongside a new Executive Committee to drive football development in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">CAF President Dr Patrice Motsepe was present at the Assembly and congratulated COSAFA on the extensive development work that has been undertaken in the Southern African region, while the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605180029.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>The Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) concluded its 2026 Elective General Assembly (EGA) in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Sunday, 17 May, with Botswana&#8217;s Tariq Babitseng elected unopposed as COSAFA President, alongside a new Executive Committee to drive football development in the coming years. CAF President Dr Patrice Motsepe was present at the Assembly and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":233695,"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":[258,256,52728,2462,10477,27487,5857,8743,9360,10012,7631,500,257,2450,254,44235],"class_list":["post-233694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-babitseng","tag-botswana-news","tag-botswanas","tag-botswanazimbabwe","tag-committee","tag-confirmed","tag-cosafa","tag-elected","tag-executive","tag-harare","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tariq"],"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\/233694","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=233694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}