She Zebras� nickname to be discarded
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Nkutlwisang speaking to journalists yesterday PIC KENNEDY RAMOKONE
The team had been called the Lady Zebras and the Female Zebras amongst other names in the past years but they were announced as the She Zebras prior to the departure for this year’s edition of the COSAFA Senior Women Championships held in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
The name, She Zebras, did not go well with local football fans and pundits alike as they took it to different social media platforms to show disapproval of the name terming it as sexist while some decried lack of creativity in coming up with the name for the team.
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