{"id":23480,"date":"2025-12-16T14:52:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/lusanda-dumke-former-south-africa-womens-captain-dies-aged-29\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:52:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:52:21","slug":"lusanda-dumke-former-south-africa-womens-captain-dies-aged-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/lusanda-dumke-former-south-africa-womens-captain-dies-aged-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Lusanda Dumke: Former South Africa women&#8217;s captain dies aged 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former South Africa women&#8217;s captain Lusanda Dumke has died at the age of 29 after being diagnosed with a rare gastric cancer.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The back row won 33 Test caps, captaining South Africa three times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also captained domestic side Bull Daisies and led them to a historic three consecutive Women&#8217;s Premier Division titles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mark Alexander, president of SA Rugby, said Dumke was &#8220;a symbol of courage, leadership, and resilience far beyond her years&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cx2ed59ge10o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former South Africa women&#8217;s captain Lusanda Dumke has died at the age of 29 after being diagnosed with a rare gastric cancer. The back row won 33 Test caps, captaining South Africa three times. She also captained domestic side Bull Daisies and led them to a historic three consecutive Women&#8217;s Premier Division titles. Mark Alexander, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23482,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23480\/revisions\/23482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}