Banyana Banyana captain Refiloe Jane says the team hopes winning the 2022 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations can speed the process of equal pay for the women’s national team.
Banyana Banyana captain Refiloe Jane and vice captains Andile Dlamini and Janine van Wyk lift the 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations trophy after SA's final win against Morocco at Stade Prince Moulay Abdellah in Rabat, Morocco on July 23 2022.Banyana Banyana captain Refiloe Jane says the team hopes winning the 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations can speed the process of equal pay for the women's national team.
Banyana take home R9.2m — R400,000 per player, which was the incentive offered by the SA Football Association for winning the Wafcon — after their heroic 2-1 final victory against hosts Morocco in Rabat on Saturday night. But the side continue to be paid less than Bafana Bafana, despite Banyana far outperforming the men’s national team, who battled to qualify for nations cups in the past two decades.
“All these years we've been pushing and fighting for change and you can also see the strides women's football has been taking,” Jane told the SA Football Journalists' Association after the final where Banyana silenced a packed Stade Prince Moulay.