Thu May 23 12:12:09 SAST 2013

Boxing heavyweight Corrie Sanders murdered

Sep 23, 2012 | Sowetan LIVE | 30 comments

Corrie Sanders - South Africa's former world boxing champion - was murdered in an armed robbery at the weekend. He was 46

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Thu May 23 12:12:10 SAST 2013 ::
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Sep 23, 2012

Julz

Very sad. Condolences to Corrie's family and friends
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Sep 23, 2012

1tsotsi

M lost for words, for how long are we going to lose innocent inspiring lives? For how long must we let criminals run SA? May his soul rest in peace.
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Sep 23, 2012

rahima

The ANCpf cannot control the criminals because they are all criminals!
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Sep 23, 2012

What-the-heck

This is so, so, so scary! The criminals are doing whatever they wish. Last night at 2:30 am a family member of mine, on vacation in KZN was attacked and is currently in hospital where he's being sewn up after being stabbed 19 with a knife. When they ask me if I believe that violent crime is subsiding (according to stats released this week), I say NO. We are being lied to!
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Sep 23, 2012

9janavy

My condolences to the boxer's family.

USDVLP please hurry up and grant me my GC so i can get out of here by 2013.This sh!t is getting worse day by day.I have being on a self imposed curfew for the past 3 years, 8a.m to 6p.m tops.After that all burglar doors locked,motion detectors on.No late night outings, clubbing,partying or driving. Also no visitors after 6p.m,the same goes for weekends.
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Sep 23, 2012

Bebesocs

CURSED CURSED CURSED. May his soul rest in peace we will not forget you. SOUTH AFRICA you need to change.
In south africa you cannot send a thief to catch another thief, so we need to change.
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Sep 23, 2012

somaartakeit

The violent barbaric criminals prolly are calling Nathi's bluff, didn't he say there was a reduction in violent crime? I knew that he was lying, he said that to justify his incompetent self, cause if the criminals have reduced their violent criminal tendencies police have just upped theirs hence the massacre and Nathi and the anc regime have blood of the miners in their hands, no amount of massaging stats will change the facts which are glaring at all of us.

RIP Corrie.
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Sep 23, 2012

Kitsoboswa

No words to describe this. God Please help this nation. To the family may God be with you through this trying time.
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Sep 23, 2012

04pandemonium

Our nation is such a disgrace! Thugs whether locals or illegals who enter our boarders without hustles walk the streets freely with guns... The popo and our joke of a government couldn't care less!
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Sep 23, 2012

piet

@ all

ur just talking crap here. when police react ,they are taped and reported to be harasing the public ,then when they relax you cry that police ar useless

not longtime ago u wer baying police heads in marikana, so whats the use of police actualy

tooo much freedom & rights in s.a,even criminals have rights , arrested then be free again.dats how s.a sucks,samthing like this in swazil.lesotho,zimb wont hapen to take police as nothing.in this time i remember the old regime government of NP

anyway, sorry,its anger,i must go for anger management

rest in peace corrie
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Sep 23, 2012

Mrazane

RIP Corrie, sincere condolences to the family. I really pray that the violence in this country will end, there is no respect for human life.
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Sep 24, 2012

MommaC

Tragic. These damn tsotsis are taking all the good people. Condolences to both families. Boxing legends and role models shouldn't be taken away so senselessly
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Sep 24, 2012

Mellow

Sad just sad...

Sincere Condolences to family and friends andother good man gone too soon may his soul RIP


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Sep 24, 2012

seutullamakunutu

Sincere condolences hope thre thugs rot in jail
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Sep 24, 2012

swona

RIP champ!
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Sep 24, 2012

MpheMapai

So sad. Wasted productive life at its prime (46yrs). RIP. Human life is taken so cheap in SA anyway..
Until something like this happens to our politicians/ law makers, no serious action will be taken. No actions will ever be taken because they have heavy security around them. If they feel threatened, the security is beefed up. We the ordinary and law abiding ones who are refused gun ownership have to live fearing the gun toting thugs.

piet is right about "tooo much freedom & rights..."
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Sep 24, 2012

Di-Anne

RIP Corrie

Only if cops were employed to deal with criminals, instead they are all sent to Marikana coz of greedy bastards from the president of this country just because of money, it's pity this kind of slayings do not happen to their gurded families nxa
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Sep 24, 2012

Warren

Condolences to the family of yet another proud South African slain in his own country.
If it is true that the people shall govern,then we must demand a referundum for the people of this country to decide on the return of the Death penalty,at least for violent crimes alone.
The respect for human life by criminals needs to be restored as soon as possible. We need to quit impressing international humanitarians for political points,at the expense of our own citizens.
It looks like it is not enough to leave our well being and that of our children,to be decided by individuals who have no immediate safety worries because they all have body guards 24/7.
The police alone cant fight this murder stigma of S.A. while the Justice and Correctional Departments are always dropping the ball with low sentences and prisoner amnesties for killers.

@Nigerian
The sooner you remove your know all azz from here the better. Like a true hypocrite,you have been singing this song for ages now.I hope you will be heading straight for your own country and Boko Haram,then you will see the real need for self imposed and government curfews.



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Sep 24, 2012

skwamasamabele

All the reason to disarm the country: Msholozi, CALL FOR A 3-MONTH GUN AMNESTY!! Then whoever decide to keep his gun and fire it should face a President's discretionary death penalty, to be green-paper-d by parliament and agreed with presiding judges. Otherwise the country is staring at Civil war in the face
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Sep 24, 2012

skhokho21

Piet, I feel you my brother, there is too much freedom/democracy in this country and when things go our way, half the country cry, the same when they go wrong. I hope its true, the champ did n`t try to be a hero with his arrogance, anyway rip to all our people who passed away this long weekend. Life goes on.
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Sep 24, 2012

Mondi

skhokho21

WTF are you saying!!!!???
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Sep 24, 2012

Blaklikeme

Corrie is not resting in peace people.

He died in excruciating agony from a Gun shot wound to the stomach.

Fcuk the blak criminals in this cuntry.
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Sep 25, 2012

spirro

R.I.P Corrie crime in south africa is out of control,the government is failing its citizens
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Sep 25, 2012

9janavy

@warren the dufus

Hey donkey ,Boko Haram only operates in a few states in the North of Nigeria while i reside in the South.Even with that, the North of Nigeria is still way safer than the whole of Mzansi.Go check out the crime stats on natiomaster before you start running your diarrhea here.Afghanistan,DRC,Iraq which are at war are even safer than SA,damn dude get head out of your bloody azz.Your country is on fire what are you going to do about it instead of getting your xenophobic knickers in a twist about lil ol me?
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Sep 25, 2012

Papage

The advise we give to Boxers, Karate people or all those who have defensive skills, dont ever try to fight a man carrying a gun, just shelve your boxing skills and abide with them to save your life, these crooks are not South Africans and they dont care, they shoot at anything and anybody. In situation like that, please remain calm and abide with them, don't try to be a hero.

condolences to the family of a Champion. My your spirit hond the killers for the rest of their lives
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Sep 25, 2012

ktzo

All the police and soldiers are in the mines, eish we need private guards
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Sep 25, 2012

Warren

@Papage
Well said on the point that some people sometimes try to be heroes forgetting that the threats in this country today include heartless spiteful foreigners.
We can try and be politically correct and deplomatic about this things but,the truth in the streets is that some of this foreigners are so spiteful they commit crimes with an astonishing twist of violence that was not seen in S.A. before. Then you get skunks like mr naijaskunk who come here to say things like "your country is on fire" because they wish it was.

@naijaskunk
Boko Haram only operates in a few states in the North of Nigeria while i reside in the South.
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Not ashamed to lie through your yellow teeth again, are you? Not that I support this but,Were the independence day,the UN office incident,the police H.Q. and many other incidents by Boko Haram in a few states in North Nigeria? Ofcourse not mr stinkyskunk. They were in the heart of Nigeria.
You are always on a mission to potray S.A,its people and its presidency as the worst you have come across but you know for a fact that, S.A. on so called fire as you hallucinate,is hundred fold a better place to be than your Nigeria.That is why you are here to better the quality of your life.
What is with this anywhere but S.A. utterances while you keep sticking around in S.A?
Just get your stinky azz out of here and see if we care.
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Sep 25, 2012

ladywire

Inside Job - Someone who knows him (possilbly even in that party) wanted him dead.

I predicted the same when the news of that Dewani murder broke then later lo' and behold...reports of her husband being the master mind.
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Sep 25, 2012

DJ-Winner

Papage
The advise we give to Boxers, Karate people or all those who have defensive skills, dont ever try to fight a man carrying a gun, just shelve your boxing skills and abide with them to save your life, these crooks are not South Africans and they dont care, they shoot at anything and anybody. In situation like that, please remain calm and abide with them, don't try to be a hero.

condolences to the family of a Champion. My your spirit hond the killers for the rest of their lives
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Yep, nobody is tougher than a gun. Even the Sangoma of the Marikana miners can tell you. Gun kills...
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Sep 25, 2012

KingMay

RIP Champ!
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