Peter Mathebula: South Africa’s world champion boxer dies

(FASTNEWS | Cape Town) – The first black South African to win a world boxing title has died at the age of 67.

Peter Mathebula made history in 1980 when he beat fellow flyweight Tae-Shik Kim of South Korea at the World Boxing Association title fight in Los Angeles.

His fearsome skill inside the ring earned him the nickname “Terror”.

Mathebula had been “in and out of hospital before deteriorating”, his sister Dianah Tlhale told SABC. He died at Leratong Hospital on Saturday night.