Former world boxing champion Tete shot dead outside his home

[p]The ‌38-year-old was arriving at his residence in ‌Mdantsane township when two armed men ‌wearing balaclavas got out of a vehicle and opened fire.[/p][p][b]"I will not speculate ‌about who did this or ⁠why," Sports ‌Minister Gayton McKenzie said in a statement.[/b][/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/tete-zolani/KYH6YFbn/"]Tete[/a]'s ​killing will renew attention on violent crime in South Africa, ​which continues to have one of the world's highest murder rates despite ⁠recent declines ​in homicides. The murder of the world champion has also struck a chord in Mdantsane, the Eastern Cape township ‌that has produced some of South Africa's most successful boxers.[/p][embed guid="bcae583f-f3a9-4fc5-a019-79330550ee7b" url="https://x.com/WorldBoxingOrg/status/2090938550158029284" social-type="twitter" /][p]A 27-year-old woman travelling with Tete was shot multiple times and taken to hospital. Police have started investigations and the motive remains unclear.[/p][p]Tete won the IBF junior-bantamweight world title in 2014 after ‌defeating Japan's Teiru Kinoshita in Kobe. ​He later won the WBO bantamweight ‌crown.[/p][p]He is best remembered internationally for his 11-second knockout of fellow South African Siboniso Gonya in Belfast in November 2017, the fastest stoppage ⁠in a ⁠world title fight.[/p]