{"id":249743,"date":"2026-11-11T03:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T01:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-nkele-reign-supreme-at-dithubaruba-open\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T03:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T01:00:21","slug":"botswana-nkele-reign-supreme-at-dithubaruba-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-nkele-reign-supreme-at-dithubaruba-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Nkele Reign Supreme At Dithubaruba Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Molepolole \u2014 Rising table tennis star, Boitlamo Nkele stole the spotlight at the 11th edition of Dithubaruba Table Tennis Club (DTTC) Open Tournament after claiming the ladies&#8217; singles title in a competition that attracted 90 players from different clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Nkele, a junior and senior national team player from the Bontleng\/Ithuteng project, defeated former number one-ranked player, Tshepiso Rebatenne of Nhabe Table Tennis Club 3-1 in the final to secure gold, a trophy and P2,000 in prize money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611100585.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Molepolole \u2014 Rising table tennis star, Boitlamo Nkele stole the spotlight at the 11th edition of Dithubaruba Table Tennis Club (DTTC) Open Tournament after claiming the ladies&#8217; singles title in a competition that attracted 90 players from different clubs. Nkele, a junior and senior national team player from the Bontleng\/Ithuteng project, defeated former number one-ranked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":249744,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,55812,257,55811,5983,20903,254,9498],"class_list":["post-249743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-dithubaruba","tag-news","tag-nkele","tag-open","tag-reign","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme"],"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\/249743","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=249743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}