Netball World Cup trophy arrives in Mzansi before Cape Town spectacle
The Netball World Cup trophy will arrive in Mzansi today, May 25 at King Shaka International Airport before undertaking a nationwide tour with a final leg in the host City of Cape Town in the Western Cape.
The countdown to the Vitality Netball World Cup 2023 takes another significant step forward with the arrival on South African soil today of the trophy itself before it embarks on a countrywide tour ahead of the competition to be held in Cape Town from July 28 to August 6.
Netball South Africa president Cecilia Molokwane and the CEO of Netball SA, Blanche De La Guerra, received the trophy on May 23 in London from World Netball president Liz Nicholl CBE at the South African High Commission in Trafalgar Square, London. Present at the handover was the High Commissioner of South Africa to the United Kingdom, Jeremiah Nyamane Mamabolo.
The two Netball SA executives will arrive back in South Africa today at 16h35 local time.
They will be received by the Premier of KZN, Nomusa Dube-Ncube and Mayor of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, Mxolisi Kaunda, and their delegations plus KZN Netball officials, along with the South African captain for the World Cup, Bongi Msomi.
The arrival of the Netball World Cup trophy in KwaZulu-Natal signals the start of a tour around South Africa. May 25 is celebrated all across the continent as Africa Day and the competition will be hosted on African soil for the first time.
The trophy tour will start in KwaZulu-Natal, before moving to Gauteng, and then stopping off in Mpumalanga, Limpopo, North West, Free State, Northern Cape, and Eastern Cape, before reaching its final destination in the Western Cape.
The dates for the Trophy Tour are as follows:
May 25 – 29: KwaZulu-Natal
May 30 – June 3: Gauteng
June 4 – 8: Mpumalanga
June 9 – 13: Limpopo
June 14 – 18: Free State
June 19 – 23: North West
June 24 – 28: Northern Cape
June 29 – July 3: Eastern Cape
July 4 – 12: Western Cape
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