{"id":21725,"date":"2025-12-28T06:11:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/former-women-springoks-player-lusanda-dumke-to-be-laid-to-rest\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:43","slug":"former-women-springoks-player-lusanda-dumke-to-be-laid-to-rest","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/former-women-springoks-player-lusanda-dumke-to-be-laid-to-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Women Springoks player Lusanda Dumke to be laid to rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Springbok women player, Lusanda Dumke, will be laid to rest today at KwaCentane outside East London in the Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Dumke died two weeks ago at an East London private hospital following a battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The former Isuzu Bulls Daisies player was voted SA Rugby\u2019s Women\u2019s Rugby Player of the Year in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>She played 33 caps for the Springbok women and Captain the side three times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21269,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-21725","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"She played 33 caps for the Springbok women.","published_date":null,"news_description":"She played 33 caps for the Springbok women.","form_embed":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SA Rugby pays tribute to Lusanda Dumke: \u201cShe will be remembered not only as a former captain of our Springbok Women&#39;s team, but also as a symbol of courage, leadership, and resilience far beyond her years\u201d - more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MYXqsQIito\">https:\/\/t.co\/MYXqsQIito<\/a> \ud83c\uddff\ud83c\udde6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z7oCorCZch\">pic.twitter.com\/z7oCorCZch<\/a><\/p>&mdash; SA Women&#39;s Rugby (@WomenBoks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WomenBoks\/status\/2000842192911224951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21725","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\/21725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25286,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21725\/revisions\/25286"}],"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=21725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}