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For Kudzai Mashawi, the decision to come out of retirement and take a second crack at international rugby was both a personal one and one of the easiest decisions to make.<\/p>\n
Zimbabwe Sables head coach Piet Benade handing him the captain’s armband, however, came as an absolute surprise.<\/p>\n
“Well, I haven’t spoken about why I came back as the reasons are rather personal,” Mashawi said.<\/p>\n
“What I can tell you, though, is that I had a very deep and long talk with Piet (Benade) and bought into the vision and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> For Kudzai Mashawi, the decision to come out of retirement and take a second crack at international rugby was both a personal one and one of the easiest decisions to make. Zimbabwe Sables head coach Piet Benade handing him the captain’s armband, however, came as an absolute surprise. “Well, I haven’t spoken about why I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":175009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,257,8479,7971,254,4709,881,4686],"class_list":["post-175008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-news","tag-ready","tag-sables","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zimbabwe"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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