Following the tragic death of two-weight division world champion, Zolani ‘Last Born’ Tete, Boxing South Africa (BSA) bosses are scheduled to visit the former boxer’s home in Mdantsane on Saturday afternoon.
Chief executive officer, Tsholofelo Lejaka, the regulator’s director of operations, Mandla Ntlanganiso, and Eastern Cape BSA provincial manager, Phakamile Jacobs, will visit the Tete family in NU 12, Mdantsane, at 16h00.
Tete, a former World Boxing Organisation (WBO) bantamweight and International Boxing Federation (IBF) junior-bantamweight champion, was shot dead by unknown assailants outside his Mdantsane home in NU 17 on Friday evening.
Speaking following Tete’s death, Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, said: “I want to speak first to his family and to the people of Mdantsane. There are no words I can offer that will be equal to what you have lost. Your son’s name will not be treated lightly by this country and my department and I are at your disposal in the days ahead, in whatever way is useful to you.
“I will not speculate about who did this or why. That investigation belongs to the South African Police Service and the detectives working it. I appeal to anyone who saw anything, who knows anything, who heard anything, to come forward. Somebody in that community knows who did this.”
Tete, who was due to make a ring come back on Sunday, 29 November, following the completion of a four-year ban in July, made history when he stopped his South African compatriot, Siboniso Gonya, in 11 seconds during a WBO bantamweight title contest in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in November 2017.
In a career, which began with a technical knockout victory over Andile Solani on debut in May 2006, Tete went to register 29 wins with 22 stoppages and four losses.
