{"id":130738,"date":"2025-09-11T20:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/130738\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T20:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:49:07","slug":"womens-rugby-world-cup-babalwa-latsha-tackles-period-poverty-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/130738\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Rugby World Cup: Babalwa Latsha tackles period poverty in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the pitch, South Africa made history reaching a first Women’s Rugby World Cup quarter-final thanks to pool-stage victories over Brazil<\/a> and Italy.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Women’s Boks lost all three of their games at the 2021 edition of the tournament, having missed the 2017 finals altogether.<\/p>\n

Their struggles are a contrast to South Africa’s men, who are record four-time Rugby World Cup winners.<\/a><\/p>\n

“I think the tide has turned and we’ve garnered so much momentum, which hopefully will lead into the right direction – being that women should become a fully professional entity in South Africa,” Latsha said.<\/p>\n

“I think brands and businesses are starting to see that investing in women’s rugby and women’s sports makes financial sense.<\/p>\n

“Those are things that 10, 15 years ago were unheard of.<\/p>\n

“[But] we aren’t going to get lost in too far into the future. I think we need to look and be where our feet are first and to make every performance count.”<\/p>\n

South Africa face a daunting task in the last eight when they face New Zealand in Exeter on Saturday<\/a> (12:00 GMT).<\/p>\n

The Black Ferns are rated as the third-best side in the world and are seven places above South Africa in the global rankings.<\/p>\n

However, Latsha is looking at the bigger picture, and the development of the women’s game which has been displayed at this year’s tournament in England.<\/p>\n

“The amount of work and progression that has happened since the last World Cup has been immense,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I think that finally there’s some type of reward for the work that has been happening.<\/p>\n

“New barriers have been broken and new pathways have been created. That is the beauty of this particular World Cup – to see the growth of various teams, not just us, has been incredible.<\/p>\n

“I believe that as the tide rises, so do other boats.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the pitch, South Africa made history reaching a first Women’s Rugby World Cup quarter-final thanks to pool-stage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-130738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}