{"id":238964,"date":"2026-07-18T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-continue-to-make-positive-strides-clinches\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T07:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T05:00:15","slug":"botswana-continue-to-make-positive-strides-clinches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-continue-to-make-positive-strides-clinches\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Continue to Make Positive Strides Clinches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Gaborone \u2014 When the final volley hit the court at the National Tennis Centre on Wednesday, it did not just seal a 2-1 victory for the senior women&#8217;s national tennis team, but shattered a historical glass ceiling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">By defeating perennial powerhouse and rivals Zimbabwe in a high-stakes Billie Jean King (BJK) Cup Africa Group III encounter, Botswana punched its ticket to the promotional playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">While the result ignited wild celebrations in the stands, the deeper narrative revealed a turning point&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607170019.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 When the final volley hit the court at the National Tennis Centre on Wednesday, it did not just seal a 2-1 victory for the senior women&#8217;s national tennis team, but shattered a historical glass ceiling. By defeating perennial powerhouse and rivals Zimbabwe in a high-stakes Billie Jean King (BJK) Cup Africa Group III [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,11195,8005,257,6594,254,12058],"class_list":["post-238964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-clinches","tag-continue","tag-news","tag-positive","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238964","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=238964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}