The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture has congratulated the Momentum Proteas for reaching the finals of the ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup for the first time on Friday, 24 February.<\/p>\n
The team reached the first-ever World Cup final after beating England by six runs.<\/p>\n
The win on home soil, the department, means that South Africa will participate in the final of this prestigious event on Sunday, 26 February.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have no doubt that the Newlands crowd contributed to this historic win and we are hopeful of their continued support on Sunday,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n
The department once again applauded the former South African cricketer, who is the current head coach of the South African women\u2019s national squad, Hilton Moreeng, and his team.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, government said the women\u2019s cricket team\u2019s road to the final is a testament to how sports can foster greater social cohesion, nation-building and a shared national identity.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the South African spirit in action,\u201d government said.<\/p>\n
Government also extended a heartfelt thank you to all South Africans who fully support the team. – SAnews.gov.za<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture has congratulated the Momentum Proteas for reaching the finals of the ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup for the first time on Friday, 24 February. The team reached the first-ever World Cup final after beating England by six runs. The win on home soil, the department, means that South […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-251145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-sanews","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}