Netball in Africa
[8] The history of South Africa's netball involvement mirrors that of other sports played in the country such as rugby union.
[9] South Africa was involved with the international netball community early in the sport's history, taking part in the 1960 meeting of Commonwealth countries in Sri Lanka to standardise the rules for the game.
[10] South Africa's international involvement was suspended because of apartheid era policies.
[13][14] Some countries, including England and New Zealand, continued to occasionally compete against South Africa, which led to their national players also being banned from international competitions.
[15][16][17] When they rejoined the community in the 1990s, internal racial tensions continued to plague the sport on the local level.
[14] The success of the South African Springboks in the 1995 Rugby World Cup had a positive impact on support for other South African national teams at international competitions, including the nation's appearance at the 1995 Netball World Championships.
[14] In 1995, the South African Police Service (SAPS) held its first National Netball Championships in Pretoria.
[20] The Southern African Development Community has a sport competition with over 600 correctional officers from member countries participating.
[23] Botswana competed in the annual Confederation of Southern African Netball Associations (COSANA) tournament in 2008.
The match was part of the annual Confederation of Southern African Netball Associations (COSANA) tournament.
Kumwenda joined the Mainland Tactix in 2014 to become the 1st African Import player into the ANZ Championship and the team has confirmed their wish to see her return for the 2015 season.
[33] Women have historically dominated in leadership positions in CHANETA but men are still involved, especially in roles like coaching.
Attempts to raise netball's popularity in the country again have been hampered by the fact that sport is culturally more acceptable for men.
In their opening match in the NTUC Fairprice Foundation Nations Cup 2010, against Singapore, they won 52–36.
