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New WBC youth champion Khaya Mlata puts Cape Town's boxing back on the map

- BY BUNTU GOTYWA

KHAYELITSHA fighter Khaya Mlata has put Cape Town boxing on the world map again by bringing home the coveted green belt of the WBC.

This is no ordinary belt. The WBC Youth Super Bantamweight title is a stepping stone only a few special fighters ever get to touch and even fewer go on to carve their names in boxing history. Mlata now joins that elite list.

He claimed the title with a hard-fought decision win over the dangerous Ardy Katompa', from the DRC, at Emperors Palace, in Johannesburg, over the weekend.