Team ZA Roller Derby beat Romania and Costa Rica, recording its first ever wins in the tournament. It finished the tournament ranked 35 out of 38 teams. Team ZA Roller Derby Team ZA Roller Derby represents South Africa in women's international roller derby, in events such as the Roller Derby World Cup. The team was first formed to compete at the 2014 Roller Derby World Cup, at which it was known as Team South Africa Roller Derby. It played a warm-up mixed scrimmage against the Texas Rollergirls, but lost all of its group stage matches and exited the competition. At the 2018 Roller Derby
Za (guilds) The name may have also come, more simply, from the idea of merchants within a guild or association sharing a seat or platform in the marketplace. The earliest "za" came into being in the 12th century, consisting not only of trade guilds, but also guilds of performers and entertainers. Even today, performers of "kabuki" and "noh" are in associations called "za" (see Kabuki-za). The "za" trade guilds appeared as a major force in the 14th century, and lasted in their original forms through the end of the 16th, when other guilds and trade organizations arose and subsumed the "za". While