THE DECEIVER
AFTER all this time the imitation gold still gleams in the African sun. It’s been twenty-five years since that modest prize was first placed into teenage hands. Grander accolades have followed, yet the crown that takes pride of place on the mantlepiece of Moruti Mthalane’s home in KwaZulu-Natal remains his first.
“It’s my history,” the two-time flyweight world titlist tells Boxing News.
“When I’m at home I take a cloth and I shine it, because that was the first thing I ever got from boxing. I was 13 years old. I was doing boxing just for fun until one day my uncle took all of the boys he was training to an amateur tournament. This is where I fell in love with boxing because afterwards we got some trophies. I was so excited, it was the first time such a thing happened to me. I couldn’t
