Calling the shots in the hunt for medals
Monday July 26, 2010By Mark Keohane
These men and women don’t say much. It would be ill-advised and it would be interpreted as ill-discipline. Here, in the uncompromising environment of the Infantry School in Oudtshoorn, the ethos is to listen, to obey and not to question.
E Cape a national knockout
Monday July 12, 2010THE Eastern Cape amateur team emerged as the champions at the weekend after four days of action at the annual South African Elite Amateur Boxing championships hosted in East London.
E Cape fighters dominate
Friday July 9, 2010Eastern Cape amateur boxers shone on Thursday, the first day of the South African National Amateur Boxing Association’s (Sanabo) elite championships, being held at Mdantsane’s Indoor Sports Centre.
New boxing project bears fruit
Thursday May 27, 2010South Africa’s search for Olympic champions in London, 2012 and beyond has reached the next round and more than 100 amateur boxers have completed basic military training at the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) infantry school in Oudtshoorn.
Stofile slams Boxing SA
Sunday April 25, 2010South Africa’s minister of sport and recreation, Makhenkesi Stofile, has told Boxing SA the organisation should be financially more responsible and independent.
Help for EL boxing
Thursday April 22, 2010Spin-offs from Friday’s IBF world title fight between Nkosinathi Joyi and Raul Garcia will be felt for a long time by deceased boxing personality Welsh Mnguni’s children who will be the benefactors of promoter Branco Milenkovic’s largesse.
Future fight prospects in Khayelitsha
Monday November 2, 2009Khayelitsha hosts the SANABO talent identification tournament on Saturday, November 14.
Death of a medallist
Thursday October 22, 2009Olympic boxing medallist Daan Bekker has died in Pretoria, aged 78.
Hunt for Olympic talent
Friday October 9, 2009South African boxing authorities are hitting the road in search of the fighters who could bring back medals from the 2012 Olympic Games in London and beyond.
Boxers go down fighting
Tuesday September 8, 2009South Africa’s four boxers at the 2009 World Amateur Championships in Milan, Italy, are all coming home early, but richer for the experience in competing at the highest level of the sport. Two of the four, Lebogang Pilane and Papish Baloyi, even won their opening bouts.
