Uganda and Burkina Faso will open at 11, local time, on Wednesday 1 May the Baseball Africa Cup. The winner of the six-team tournament will advance to the Europe-Africa WBSC Qualifying Event to the 2020 Olympic Games

A single match between South Africa and Zimbabwe, to be played on Monday, 29 April, at 12:30 local time, will decide who will enter the Africa Cup as the top seed out of Africa’s Zone South and determine the order of the schedule.

Lesotho withdrew from the three-team tournament, so both National Teams will advance to the Africa Cup, to be played from 1 to 5 March in Johannesburg, South Africa. The seeding will determine the schedule of the six-team tournament

The only exception will be the Europe-Africa Baseball Qualifier: the schedule of the single round-robin will be determined by seeding. The different draws will happen on 29 April, 10 July and 20 November

Softball international star and WBSC Athletes Commission Co-Chair Maria Soto attended: “We discussed very interesting topics and we received some advice on how to improve our own Athletes Commission.”