{"id":194829,"date":"2025-12-16T14:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194829\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:46:07","slug":"lusanda-dumke-former-south-africa-womens-captain-dies-aged-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194829\/","title":{"rendered":"Lusanda Dumke: Former South Africa women&#8217;s captain dies aged 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former South Africa women&#8217;s captain Lusanda Dumke has died at the age of 29 after being diagnosed with a rare gastric cancer.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former South Africa women&#8217;s captain Lusanda Dumke has died at the age of 29 after being diagnosed with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-194829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}