MEDIA STATEMENT BY SA NATIONAL DEFENCE FORCE (SANDF) HEADQUARTERS: 49TH WORLD MILITARY BOXING TOURNAMENT FROM 30 JUNE TO 8 JULY 2005

Embargo: None
Date of release: 20 June 2005

The SA National Defence Force (SANDF) will host the biggest amateur boxing event ever presented in South Africa from 30 June to 08 July 2005 when the 49th World Military Boxing Tournament will take place at the University of Pretoria’s Groenkloof Campus in Tshwane.

More than 200 athletes from 35 countries will fight it out in 11 categories for seven days to be crowned as the military world champion on 8 July.

Some of the countries that will participate in this event are:
• Lesotho
• Botswana
• United States.

As part of the tournament, the German team will present a boxing clinic to previously disadvantaged children in the Barry Vorster Hall in Alberton on 28 June 2005.

You are invited to send a reporter and a photographer/ cameraman to attend the launch of the tournament at the Officers Club of the South African Military Health Service Training Formation in Thaba Tshwane at 10:00 for 10:30 on Thursday 23 June 2005 (A map is attached).

Please RSVP on or before 12:00 on 22 June 2005 with Maj. Danny Shibambo at (012) 355-6388 or 082-805-1319.

Please note that this tournament will be open to the public.

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ENDS

Issued by: Chief Directorate Corporate Communication
Private Bag X161
Pretoria
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Enquiries: Brigadier General Kwena D. Mangope
Tel: (012) 355-6303