Team ZA Roller Derby 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 World Cup, on the first day, the team lost narrowly to Greece, and then by 283 to nil to England. However, it then
Za (guilds) over 130 years. However, the "za" continued to operate, and perhaps became even more powerful as the ability to safely travel and transport goods across the nation became increasingly scarce. Towards the end of the 16th century, one hundred years into the Sengoku period, Oda Nobunaga briefly took command of the country, and established "free" markets and guilds, known respectively as "rakuichi" (楽市) and "rakuza" (楽座). These dealt a severe blow to the power and influence of the older, monopolistic "za", but did not replace them. Several other types of trade associations came into being around this time as well;