{"id":22423,"date":"2013-09-05T02:06:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T00:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/makhanya-is-dreaming-of-her-new-nissan-micra\/"},"modified":"2013-09-05T02:06:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T00:06:08","slug":"makhanya-is-dreaming-of-her-new-nissan-micra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/makhanya-is-dreaming-of-her-new-nissan-micra\/","title":{"rendered":"Makhanya is dreaming of her new Nissan Micra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=15602\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15602\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-15602  \" alt=\"A record breaking finish by Mapaseka Makhanya on Saturday, August 31, at Supersport Park. Photo: Reg Caldecott \" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/4d173_pta1-600x395.jpg\" width=\"378\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A record breaking finish by Mapaseka Makhanya on Saturday, August 31, at Supersport Park. Photo: Reg Caldecott<\/p>\n<p>Transnet\u2019s Mapaseka \u201cSpeedsta\u201d Makhanya is celebrating.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old runner won the Pretoria leg of the SPAR Women\u2019s Challenge series at Supersport Park on Saturday to ensure that, with one race to go, it is almost impossible for any other runner to overtake her and win the Nissan Micra that will be handed over to the winner of the 2013 SPAR Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Makhanya won the Pretoria race in a record time of 33:37 minutes to earn 30 Grand Prix points. She now has a total of 97 points \u2013 29 ahead of her nearest rival, former Grand Prix winner Irvette van Zyl, who has 68 points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/makhanya-wins-pretoria-leg-of-spar-womens-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">The only way for Van Zyl to overtake Makhanya would be if the Transnet runner missed the final race<\/a> in Johannesburg on October 13, and Van Zyl won the maximum 30 points by winning the race at the Wanderers in a record time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really excited about the thought of winning a car,\u201d said a beaming Makhanya. \u201cIt really is something different and special. I can\u2019t wait to collect the keys and drive away in my brand new motor car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more SPAR Women\u2019s Challenge news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/spar-womens-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/a2719_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record breaking finish by Mapaseka Makhanya on Saturday, August 31, at Supersport Park. Photo: Reg Caldecott Transnet\u2019s Mapaseka \u201cSpeedsta\u201d Makhanya is celebrating. The 28-year-old runner won the Pretoria leg of the SPAR Women\u2019s Challenge series at Supersport Park on Saturday to ensure that, with one race to go, it is almost impossible for any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-22423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}