‘I feel bad about not checking on Dingaan’

Friends regret not visiting the boxing icon before he suffered a fatal heart attack alone at his Langlaagte home

05 May 2024 - 00:00

Two close friends of former world championship boxer Dingaan Thobela, who last spoke to him on the phone a week before his body was found at one of his Johannesburg properties, regret not checking in on him. ..

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