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Former heavyweight champion shot dead
Reuters
September 24, 2012, 11:50 am
South African former world heavyweight boxing champion Cornelius 'Corrie' Sanders has died after being shot by armed robbers who burst into his nephew's 21st birthday party.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation reported the death on Sunday.
Sanders, 46, was hit in the arm and the stomach when the robbers raided a restaurant outside the town of Brits in North West province where he and other family members were attending the party, the SABC said on its website.
He was rushed to hospital, but died from his wounds in the early hours of Sunday.
"Three guys walked in and then started shooting - unfortunately Corrie Sanders was wounded in that shooting - and they stole some purses, cellphones and car keys from other people," Johan de Jager, owner of the Thatch Haven Country Lodge restaurant, told the SABC.
Sanders, nicknamed 'The Sniper' because of his fierce left, won the World Boxing Organisation heavyweight title in 2003 with a surprise knockout of Ukraine’s Wladimir Klitschko.
Out of his 46 professional fights, he lost only four.
Tributes poured in on Sunday from admirers and fellow sports stars.
"He was just a fantastic sportsman," former South African rugby captain Naas Botha told eNews Channel Africa.
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45 Comments
I find it hilarious how the multi culti libbies always blame these events on "apartheid" when empirical evidence proves the exact opposite. Apartheid was instituted to PREVENT these things and it worked,-when foul smelling, immoral barbarians are kept out of your neighborhood, you have very little crime.
ReplyMy South African friends say every time I talk to them how lucky they are to live here in NZ.We look at the All Blacks losing as a big thing.The poor people that live in South Africa have way bigger problems than us.Imagine what It feels like to take your kids to school while you wait for a car jacking,or living behind security gates in your own home.So true we don't know how lucky we are mate.
ReplyThere's more racists in Nu Zilind than there ever was in South Africa. Just check the comments below for confirmation.
2 RepliesThe only good kaffer is a dead kaffer
2 RepliesI am so thankful my family and I are allowed to live in peace in New Zealand, bless this country and its people forever in your debt and so thankfull god bless us all!
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