{"id":15009,"date":"2012-09-27T17:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/s-africa-police-arrest-3-for-murder-of-boxing-champion-sanders\/"},"modified":"2012-09-27T17:00:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T15:00:21","slug":"s-africa-police-arrest-3-for-murder-of-boxing-champion-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-police-arrest-3-for-murder-of-boxing-champion-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa police arrest 3 for murder of boxing champion Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, Sept 27<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South African police have<br \/>\narrested three suspects for the murder of former world<br \/>\nheavyweight boxing champion Cornelius &#8220;Corrie&#8221; Sanders, who died<br \/>\non Sunday after being shot by armed robbers who burst into his<br \/>\nnephew&#8217;s 21st birthday party.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The suspects &#8211; all Zimbabwean citizens &#8211; are due to appear<br \/>\nbefore magistrates in Brits, 80 km (50 miles) northwest of<br \/>\nJohannesburg, on Monday on charges of murder and armed robbery.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The police confiscated a cellular phone, vehicle key, purse<br \/>\nand cash that were allegedly robbed during the robbery and<br \/>\nbelong to the victims,&#8221; police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sanders, 46, was shot in the arm and the stomach when<br \/>\nrobbers raided a restaurant near Brits, in North West Province,<br \/>\nwhere he and other family members were attending the party.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He was rushed to hospital but died from his wounds in the<br \/>\nearly hours of Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sanders, nicknamed &#8220;The Sniper&#8221; because of his fierce<br \/>\nleft-hand punch, won the World Boxing Organization heavyweight<br \/>\ntitle in 2003 with a surprise knockout of Ukraine&#8217;s Wladimir<br \/>\nKlitschko. He lost only four of his 46 professional<br \/>\nfights. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Tshepo Tshabalala; Editing by Ed Cropley and<br \/>\nPravin Char)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, Sept 27 (Reuters) &#8211; South African police have arrested three suspects for the murder of former world heavyweight boxing champion Cornelius &#8220;Corrie&#8221; Sanders, who died on Sunday after being shot by armed robbers who burst into his nephew&#8217;s 21st birthday party. The suspects &#8211; all Zimbabwean citizens &#8211; are due to appear before magistrates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}