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Desiree Ellis and her Banyana Banyana charges face an uphill battle against Ivory Coast on Friday night after losing their opening 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations match against Tanzania. Only victory against the Ivorians would guarantee that the South Africans remain in the Morocco-hosted tournament.<\/em><\/p>\n South Africa’s quest for second Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) title took a major blow when they were defeated 2-1 by Tanzania on Monday<\/a>. Now Banyana Banyana are looking to shake off that…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Desiree Ellis and her Banyana Banyana charges face an uphill battle against Ivory Coast on Friday night after losing their opening 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations match against Tanzania. Only victory against the Ivorians would guarantee that the South Africans remain in the Morocco-hosted tournament. South Africa’s quest for second Women’s Africa Cup of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[1087],"tags":[258,256,29029,13475,7647,6560,6183,6555,5959,14192,7127,6559,1218,257,5069,254,24869],"class_list":["post-239914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africacote","tag-banyana","tag-clash","tag-coast","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-defining","tag-face","tag-ivory","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wafcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239914","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239914\/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=239914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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