A daunting challenge awaits the Springbok Women’s Sevens team in the Rugby Africa Women’s Sevens Cup in Kenya this weekend, but upon their departure to Nairobi on Wednesday, coach Cecil Afrika was at ease due to the mood and mindset of the departing squad. 

Captain Nadine Roos will be flanked by a number of senior players, but for Afrika, it is not only the abilities of the players that will make the trip, but their desire to remain undefeated at this tournament that provides the light at the end of the tunnel in what will be his first time in