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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>There only two days left before the long-awaited Rugby Africa Regional Sevens South tournament scheduled at Bocheletsana, in Thaba-Tseka. This year Lesotho will host the 2019 Rugby Africa Regional Sevens South tournament.
\nLesotho has been given the rights to host the international competition by the continent\u2019s governing body, Rugby Africa, and four countries will touch down in Lesotho to compete for the 2019 crown.
\nThe countries expected to join Lesotho in the five-nation championship are Swaziland, Mozambique, Burundi and Congo Brazzaville. Last year the tournament was held in Burundi and Lesotho claimed silver after falling 15\u20135 to the DRC in the final.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Lesotho<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. There only two days left before the long-awaited Rugby Africa Regional Sevens South tournament scheduled at Bocheletsana, in Thaba-Tseka. This year Lesotho will host the 2019 Rugby Africa Regional Sevens South tournament. Lesotho has been given the rights to host the international competition by the continent\u2019s governing body, Rugby Africa, and four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":16969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17,16],"tags":[233,246,245,311],"class_list":["post-16970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-lesotho","tag-rugby"],"yoast_head":"\nAll eyes on Bocheletsana as rugby contest beckons - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There only two days left before the long-awaited Rugby Africa Regional Sevens South tournament scheduled at Bocheletsana ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/all-eyes-on-bocheletsana-as-rugby-contest-beckons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"All eyes on Bocheletsana as rugby contest beckons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There only two days left before the long-awaited Rugby Africa Regional Sevens South tournament scheduled at Bocheletsana ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/all-eyes-on-bocheletsana-as-rugby-contest-beckons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-05T10:13:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-05T11:07:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_18-62c41b55c7501.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"760\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"549\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/all-eyes-on-bocheletsana-as-rugby-contest-beckons#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/all-eyes-on-bocheletsana-as-rugby-contest-beckons\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"All eyes on Bocheletsana as rugby contest beckons\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-05T10:13:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-05T11:07:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/all-eyes-on-bocheletsana-as-rugby-contest-beckons\"},\"wordCount\":120,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/all-eyes-on-bocheletsana-as-rugby-contest-beckons#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_18-62c41b55c7501.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Lesotho\",\"Lesotho\",\"Rugby\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/all-eyes-on-bocheletsana-as-rugby-contest-beckons#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/all-eyes-on-bocheletsana-as-rugby-contest-beckons\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/all-eyes-on-bocheletsana-as-rugby-contest-beckons\",\"name\":\"All eyes on Bocheletsana as rugby contest beckons - 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