{"id":23956,"date":"2026-02-19T07:51:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-women-soccer-team-kicks-off-cosafa-with-2-0-victory-against-malawi\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:41","slug":"sa-women-soccer-team-kicks-off-cosafa-with-2-0-victory-against-malawi","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-women-soccer-team-kicks-off-cosafa-with-2-0-victory-against-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"SA\u00a0women soccer team kicks off COSAFA with 2-0 victory against Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) national women soccer team, Banyana Banyana have kicked off their Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) Women&#8217;s Championship campaign with a two-nil victory over Malawi.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The opening match at the SA&#8217;s\u00a0 Old Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane, Limpopo Province, was the first clash in Group A.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The other teams in the group are Angola and Lesotho.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Banyana Banyana and the Malawi Scorchers opened the tournament. SA&#8217;s two goals came in the second half.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The first goal came from striker Sibulele Holweni, and the second was scored by Bonolo Mokoma.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">SA&#8217;s next encounter will be against Angola at the Seshego Stadium, Limpopo Province, on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14105,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-23956","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Banyana Banyana have kicked off COSAFA's Women's Championship campaign","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26776,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23956\/revisions\/26776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}