South African sport has suffered another blow with the news that a female professional boxer Phindile Mwelase has died after failing to emerge from a two-week coma.
Light-welterweight Mwelase fell into the coma following a
defeat by knock-out to Liz Butler in a fight on the 10 October in Pretoria.
The country’s ministry for sport announced on Tuesday that
Mwelase had died at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria on Saturday
and called it “a very difficult week” for South African sport.
Boxing South Africa, the national federation, announced
Mwelase’s funeral would be held this Saturday in her home town of Ladysmith, in
the eastern Kwazulu-Natal province, and said it “grieves at the passing of a wonderful
and tremendous individual.”
It is the third death for a South Africa sportsperson in
less that four days after runner Mbulaeni Mulaudzi was killed in a car crash on
Friday and the national goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa was murdered by robbers at his
girlfriend’s home on Sunday night, which resulted in widespread dismay and
anger as well as tributes from South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma.
Source-Guardian
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