By Monwabisi Jimlongo
Boxing South Africa (BSA) has cleared Makhanda boxer and former national champion Mziwoxolo Ndwayana to go fight against Charles Shinima in Namibia next month.
Ndwayana is going to challenge World Boxing Organisation (WBO) Africa welterweight champion Shinima at the Helao Nafidi Hall in Ohangwena Region, Namibia, on Saturday, 19 March.
The unbeaten Namibian will be making the first defence of the belt he won when he stopped Tanzanian Mohamed Mutalemwa in October last year.
“We have received a clearance letter from BSA. We will be leaving on the 17th. That will be after we have done COVID-19 tests,” Bulelani Ndwayana, the father and trainer of the Eastern Cape boxer, said.
Shinima, a former Namibian junior-middleweight title champion, has registered eight stoppages in his last 10 wins. The 29-year-old Shinima’s knockouts include that of South African boxer Junior Makondo whom he stopped in June 2018.
On the other hand, Ndwayana will go to the Shinima battle on the back of a win over Mardochee Kuvesa Katembo from the Democratic Republic of Congo in Pretoria last September.
