By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. 1 Women’s Football Journalist

Celebration Time…South Africa’s Banyana Banyana players celebrating one of their goals in Lagos last time out.
Highly improved South Africa’s Banyana Banyana have qualified for the second round of the TotalEnergies African Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON), Morocco 2022 courtesy of 6-0 defeat of Mozambique in the return leg tie on the back of 7-0 win in the first leg to record a 13-0 aggregate score.
The Coach DesireeEllis tutored Banyana Banyana have been impressive of late as the South Africans had last month thrashed Super Falcons 4-2 in the final match of the Aisha Buhari 6-Nation Invitational Tournament which took place at Mobolaji Johnson Arena, Onikan in Lagos. They have continued in that trajectory by beating Mozambique in Maputo by a wide margin.

South African Head Coach Desiree Ellis wheeling away at the end of the match.
Also, Tunisia eliminated Egypt on 7-2 aggregate score after the Tunisians managed to score one goal at Stade El Menzah, Tunis on Tuesday, having done the job last week at Petro Sport Stadium in Cairo where they defeated the Egyptians 6-2 away from home.
Other countries that have booked their places in the last 22 teams in the competition are Ugandan which edged out Ethiopia
2-1 on penalties after both countries tied 2-2 over two legs while Zambia made it to the next round on 4-3 goals aggregate. Zambia dumped Malawi.
Also, Zimbabwe qualified at the expense of Eswatini on 6-1 goals aggregate even as more results of the qualifiers are being expected as at the time of this report.