{"id":21268,"date":"2025-12-18T07:29:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/family-devastated-by-female-rugby-star-lusanda-dumkes-passing\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:23","slug":"family-devastated-by-female-rugby-star-lusanda-dumkes-passing","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/family-devastated-by-female-rugby-star-lusanda-dumkes-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"Family devastated by female rugby star Lusanda Dumke\u2019s passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The family of the women\u2019s rugby star, Lusanda Dumke, says they are still coming to terms with her passing.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 29-year-old died in an East London private hospital on Tuesday, following a long battle with cancer.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She has been described as a distinguished ambassador for women\u2019s sport in South Africa.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Her sister, Nwabisa Dumke, says it will take time to accept Lusanda\u2019s death.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cLusanda really loved sports we had high hopes in her, but the Lord decided to take her, as family we are not happy at all.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21269,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-21268","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"She has been described as a distinguished ambassador for women\u2019s sport in SA. \u00a0","published_date":null,"news_description":"She has been described as a distinguished ambassador for women\u2019s sport in South Africa. \u00a0","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25004,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21268\/revisions\/25004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}