It remains to be seen just how much the Proteas will be getting for their participation at this year’s Netball World Cup.
NETBALL SA are coy about just how much the Proteas will be getting as an incentive for the Netball World Cup, which is due to start in Cape Town this week.
Ahead of the 2019 tournament the team was promised R1 million each if they won the World Cup where they finished fourth in Liverpool.
The Proteas were also promised R750,000 if they finished second, R500,000 for third place and R200,000 for making the semi-finals.
But this time round Netball SA president Cecilia Molokwane says they have decided not to reveal just how much the players would be getting.
“We are not going to announce anything, we learnt from our mistakes. In Liverpool we announced that if they go to the semi-finals and win it they would get a R1 million each and I think they concentrated more on the million than on playing the game itself.
“We talked to them (the players) and we told them that there will be incentives obviously, they know that. We gave them incentives when they ended fourth at the 2019 World Cup. But for now let’s keep it to ourselves and and not announce the incentives that are there“, said Molokwane at the launch of the pop-up Puma Netball store in Cape Town.
The Proteas have been hard at work preparing for the tournament, but have also been mingling with fans around various locations and immersing themselves in the World Cup atmosphere.
South Africa take on Wales in their opening match on Friday at 4pm, just after the opening ceremony that is set to begin at 2pm at the CTICC.
“I went to the CTICC yesterday and the girls were training. I was wondering are they training, or are they playing a tournament? When we started this journey, there was a time where at one stage we couldn’t even say we are ready to host the World Cup because Covid came and it dragged us back in a lot of things. We had to run like cheetahs to make sure that this tournament becomes a reality.”
