Zintle Mpupha

Zintle Mpupha (born 25 December 1993) is a South African women's rugby union player and cricketer from Middledrift, Eastern Cape, South Africa. She played cricket for Border cricket team and rugby for Border Bulldogs as well as the South Africa women's national rugby sevens team as a fly half.

Rugby career Mpupha played rugby for Border Bulldogs. In 2013 she was first called up to the South Africa national women's rugby sevens team. However, due to studying for a degree at the University of Fort Hare, she stopped playing rugby sevens and started playing rugby union while at university.

Mpupha was selected to represent South Africa at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town. She was also named in South Africa's women's fifteens team for the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.

She was a member of the South African side that competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. In September, She was called into South Africa's fifteens squad for the 2024 WXV 2 tournament.

On 9 August 2025, she was named in South Africa's squad to the Women's Rugby World Cup.

Cricket Mpupha started playing cricket and played for the Border cricket team's under-19s when she was 14 and made her cricket debut for the Border cricket team in 2011. Following this she was called up to the South Africa national women's under-19 cricket team.