{"id":10345,"date":"2014-05-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/10345\/the-sun-shines-on-these-birds\/"},"modified":"2014-05-09T10:13:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T08:13:20","slug":"the-sun-shines-on-these-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/sports-news\/school-sports-news\/2014\/05\/11\/the-sun-shines-on-these-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sun shines on these birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mpumalanga Sunbirds are in Division Two with the likes of Kwazulu-Natal (Kingdom Stars), Northern Cape (Diamonds), Southern Stings (Western Cape) and Limpopo (Limpopo Boababs).<\/p>\n<p>Three of their games will be televised live on SuperSport during the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The team consists of Thembisile Mdluli (Nelspruit &#8211; vice-captain), Marlie Nel (Middelburg &#8211; captain), Nurse Mbonani (Kinross), Thabisile Mphuthi (Kinross), Eland\u00e9 le Roux (Middelburg), Fikile Oliphant (Embalenhle), Rolo Erasmus (Middelburg), Felicia Muwayi (Nelspruit), Sibongile Mashiyane (Breyton), Angel Mbatna (Kinross), Marili Tolley (Middelburg), Chandi Venter (Middelburg), Vicky Mbana (Breyton), Maureen Nkosi (Nelspruit), Charlin Ntuli (Middelburg), Tilla Smedema (Middelburg &#8211; team manager), Julie Oosthuizen (Middelburg &#8211; coach).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Fixtures:<\/p>\n<p>10 May: Sunbirds vs Limpopo Boababs<\/p>\n<p>11 May: Sunbirds vs Southern Stings (TV game at 12:00)<\/p>\n<p>17 May: Sunbirds vs Kingdom Stars<\/p>\n<p>24 May: Sunbirds vs Southern Stings<\/p>\n<p>25 May: Sunbirds vs Limpopo Boababs (TV game at 15:00)<\/p>\n<p>31 May: Sunbirds vs Diamonds<\/p>\n<p>1 June: Sunbirds vs Kingdom Stars (TV game at 13:30).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 15 best players in Mpumalanga have been selected to represent the province in the Netball Premier League at the University of Pretoria&#8217;s Rembrandt Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":10346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2886],"tags":[889],"class_list":["post-10345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-sports-news","category-sports-news","tag-sports"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"School sport"},"tag_labels":["sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}