{"id":712764,"date":"2026-06-03T14:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/712764\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T14:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:47:08","slug":"plea-for-kzn-boxers-to-take-part-in-drug-free-sport-virtual-workshop-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/712764\/","title":{"rendered":"Plea for KZN boxers to take part in drug-free sport virtual workshop on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Story audio is generated using AI<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Boxing stakeholders in KwaZulu-Natal have been urged by Boxing SA provincial manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sowetan.co.za\/sport\/boxing\/2025-10-13-boxing-development-in-kzn-bears-fruits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sowetan.co.za\/sport\/boxing\/2025-10-13-boxing-development-in-kzn-bears-fruits\/\">Mlungisi Dube<\/a> to participate in the virtual workshop that will be conducted by the SA Institute for Drug-Free Sport (Saids) tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The seminar will begin at 1pm, and boxers should contact Dube in advance to get the link to the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With his lifelong passion for the sport, Dube said: \u201cThis workshop aims to enhance awareness and understanding of anti-doping regulations, athlete responsibilities, prohibited substances, testing procedures, therapeutic use exemptions, and the role of stakeholders in maintaining clean and fair sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe encourage all associations and boxing stakeholders to participate in this important educational session as we continue to uphold the integrity and development of professional boxing in KwaZulu-Natal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dube is a former boxing trainer, manager and promoter who was appointed the BSA\u2019s KwaZulu-Natal manager in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe encourage boxers and trainers to show up, especially boxers, who take such initiatives lightly. They need to learn about what goes into their bodies because prevention is always better than cure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201dIn fact with boxing it\u2019s even worse because careers have ended due to boxers failing dope tests.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The workshop comes shortly after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sowetan.co.za\/sport\/2026-05-26-hack-says-new-board-must-improve-the-image-of-saids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sowetan.co.za\/sport\/2026-05-26-hack-says-new-board-must-improve-the-image-of-saids\/\">Raymond Hack <\/a>said his long-term plan over five years as chair of Saids was to get as many schools and young people as possible to be educated on the dangers of supplements and taking substances without proper knowledge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAlso to educate the doctors,\u201d said Hack, whose board comprises doctors Thulani Ngwenya, Lervasen Pillay and Wergely McKenzie, Corrine Berg (lawyer), Sharief Hendricks (senior exercise science specialist at UCT), Keletso Totlhanyo (head of SABC Sport), Nomcebo Dlamini (Central Drug Authority) and Shantha Balakrishna (advocate).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hack said the board, appointed by sports minister Gayton McKenzie in January, will need to put in a tremendous amount of time and effort to educate people about the dangers of supplements and drugs in sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sowetan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Story audio is generated using AI Boxing stakeholders in KwaZulu-Natal have been urged by Boxing SA provincial manager&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1730,12460,346324,346325,85],"class_list":["post-712764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-drugs","tag-hack","tag-mlungisi","tag-saids","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}