Teen boxer on a golden streak

Writer and Photographer: Sarah Taylor.

A talented Zwelihle teenage girl is making waves in boxing circles in the Western Cape. Sixteen-year-old Nambita ‘Cassandra’ Nywebeni won gold in her first match at a women’s month festival held at the University of the Western Cape in September after boxing for only three months at the Overstrand Whale Boxing Club (OWBC).

Mzi Damesi of the Overstrand Whale Boxing Club is very proud of his young female boxer, Cassandra Nywebeni.

“I started boxing in June, after I was introduced to the boxing club by another girl. Although she stopped boxing, I have carried on, coming to practice every single day,” she says. “I also always box with boys as there are no other girls at the club at the moment.”

These, says Cassandra, are the secrets of her recent boxing success, which saw her triumph in the UWC competition.

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