Sophie Devine and Suzie Bates will return to the White Ferns for five games against South Africa, as the defence of the T20 World Cup looms in June.
Neither featured in the Zimbabwe series - the first time a New Zealand squad was named without one or the other since 2006.
Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.
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