SA judo mourns another tragic death

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Still floored by the tragic murder of SA and Commonwealth Championships gold medallist Preston Davids, SA judo has suffered a second blow to the solar plexus.

While Davids’s death earlier in August came at the hands of gangsters in Bellville South, Cape Town, Blake’s death was a by-product of another scourge of modern-day SA society: a lack of housing and municipal services. Desiree, herself a national-class judoka who won Team SA’s first medal at the Region Five Games in Bulawayo in Zimbabwe six years ago, said her brother will be sorely missed.

 

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