The previous SANABO administration failed to raise the necessary funds to send the country's team to the African qualifier for Tokyo 2020, which was held in Senegal in February of last year before ...

JOHANNESBURGJOHANNESBURG — South African boxer Dingaan Thobela, a two-weight world champion known as “The Rose of Soweto,” has died, the ministry of sports said on Tuesday. He was 57. Thobela won the ...

South African heavyweights have made numerous challenges for one or other portion of a world heavyweight title and only three have succeeded in winning one of the major organisation belts. Gerrie ...

"Our beloved father passed away three weeks after being admitted to hospital," his daughter Thembi told AFP without disclosing the cause of death. Mathebula created history in Los Angeles in 1980 when ...

Still reeling from the shocking death of one of the country’s bright prospects Anele Makhwelo on Wednesday, South African boxing has been hit by yet another tragedy following the death of boxing ...

Former world boxing champion Dingaan Thobela was found dead in Johannesburg on Monday aged 57 after suffering ill health, a family member told AFP. > > > Watch In Conversation with Dingaan Thobela on ...

AIBA is set to launch the 2017 AIBA Year of Africa in South Africa ©AIBA The programme includes the HeadsUp Truck, AIBA’s new GlovesUp gateway into boxing and 4,835 certified course places which are ...

FORMER Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) bantamweight champion Jess Maca has given a chance to expedite his return to the international limelight when he trades bombs against a highly ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African former world heavyweight boxing champion Cornelius "Corrie" Sanders died on Sunday after being shot by armed robbers who burst into his nephew's 21st birthday ...