{"id":867266,"date":"2026-08-22T10:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/867266\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:12:09","slug":"boxing-two-time-world-champion-zolani-tete-shot-dead-outside-home-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/867266\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Two-time world champion Zolani Tete shot dead outside home in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two-time world champion Zolani Tete has been shot dead outside his home in South Africa.<\/p>\n

The 38\u2011year\u2011old was killed in what has been described as an ambush in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape on Friday.<\/p>\n

Officials said Tete was in his car waiting for the gate to his house to open when two armed suspects in balaclavas emerged from a vehicle and fired “multiple shots” at him and a 27\u2011year\u2011old female passenger, who remains in hospital.<\/p>\n

South Africa’s minister of sport, arts and culture, Gayton McKenzie, said: “South Africa has lost one of the finest fighters it has ever produced.”<\/p>\n

The two suspects fled the scene and a major investigation has been launched, McKenzie added.<\/p>\n

Tete held the WBO bantamweight title from 2017 to 2019, as well as the IBF super-flyweight title in 2014.<\/p>\n

Tete beat Liverpool’s Paul Butler in 2015<\/a> in one of the eight times he fought in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

He also holds a Guinness World Record for the fastest knockout in a title fight, ending his match with Siboniso Gonya inside 11 seconds in 2017.<\/p>\n

Tete last fought in July 2022, beating Briton Jason Cunningham by knockout In London, but it was later ruled a no-contest after he failed a drugs test.<\/p>\n

He tested positive for anabolic steroid stanozolol and was given a four-year ban by the UK Anti-Doping Agency.<\/p>\n

His ban ended on 29 July, 2026 and after his death, manager Mla Tengimfene confirmed he had been training for a comeback fight.<\/p>\n

Tete had 29 wins in 34 fights, with four losses and one no-contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time world champion Zolani Tete has been shot dead outside his home in South Africa. The 38\u2011year\u2011old was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-867266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}