4 arrested after world champion boxer shot dead in South Africa
Summary
South African police arrested four people after boxing champion Zolani Tete was shot and killed near his home. Tete was a two-time world boxing champion preparing to return to the sport after a doping ban.Key Facts
- Zolani Tete, a two-time boxing world champion from South Africa, was shot dead last week near his home in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape.
- Four suspects aged 22 to 28 were arrested, and one has been charged with murder.
- A 27-year-old woman with Tete during the attack survived and is hospitalized.
- Tete won the IBF junior-bantamweight title in 2014 and the WBO bantamweight title in 2017.
- He holds the record for the fastest knockout in a world championship fight: 11 seconds in 2017.
- In 2023, he received a four-year doping ban that ended in July, and he was preparing to return to boxing.
- South Africa’s Sports Minister called Tete one of the country’s finest fighters and said his death is a great loss.
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