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360º PERSPECTIVES | ISSUE 7 | 2020/2021
Boxer edges closer to
Olympic dream » When Asemahle Sentile was young, his father nicknamed him ‘Softie’ because he believed that he was not tough enough. O PROVE HIM WRONG, Sentile joined a boxing club where his older brother was already a member. “Every boy would want to make his dad proud,” Sentile says. “Having seen how proud my
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father was, how he would react when my brother’s coach used to tell him how a boxing tournament had gone, I decided to follow suit.” Sentile, who is pursuing a BA degree in psychology at UWC, says he joined the club in his neighbourhood of Site C in Khayelitsha, won his first bout and was named the boxer of the tournament after his second match. He ditched other sporting codes he was involved with, such as football, rugby and