{"id":16087,"date":"2023-02-15T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=16087"},"modified":"2023-02-15T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T12:47:00","slug":"mbalo-brief-february-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=16087","title":{"rendered":"Mbalo brief \u2013 February 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in history, the International Cricket Council (ICC) Women\u2019s T20 World Cup will be hosted on African soil. The global sporting tournament will feature 10 teams who will battle it out to be crowned T20 champions from 10 to 23 February 2023 at three iconic stadiums: Boland Park in Paarl, St George\u2019s Park in Port Elizabeth, and Newlands in Cape Town. This is a momentous moment for women in cricket, and women in sports in general as it narrows the gap for inequality in sports. The tournament also serves as motivation for young women to partake in sports, particularly those that have been male dominated in the past.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Mbalo-Brief-Issue-1-of-2023.pdf\">Download Mbalo brief \u2013 February 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in history, the International Cricket Council (ICC) Women\u2019s T20 World Cup will be hosted on African soil. The global sporting tournament will feature 10 teams who will battle it out to be crowned T20 champions from 10 to 23 February 2023 at three iconic stadiums: Boland Park in Paarl, St George\u2019s&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=16087\" class=\"btn btn-mini btn-info pull-right\" style=\"margin:10px 30px;\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mbalo-brief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16089,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16087\/revisions\/16089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}