Two-time world boxing champion Zolani Tete has been shot dead outside his home in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in what officials have described as an ambush. The 38-year-old was waiting in his car for his gate to open when two armed, balaclava-clad suspects emerged from a vehicle and opened fire, also wounding a 27-year-old woman who was travelling with him. South Africa's sports minister, Gayton McKenzie, said the country had "lost one of the finest fighters it has ever produced," and confirmed a major investigation has been launched after the attackers fled the scene.

Tete held the WBO bantamweight title from 2017 to 2019 and the IBF super-flyweight title in 2014, and set a Guinness World Record for the fastest knockout in a title fight, defeating Siboniso Gonya in just 11 seconds in 2017. He fought eight times in the UK, including a 2015 win over Liverpool's Paul Butler, and finished his career with 29 wins, four losses and one no-contest from 34 fights. His last bout, a July 2022 knockout win over Briton Jason Cunningham in London, was later ruled a no-contest after he failed a drugs test and received a four-year ban; that ban had only just ended, and his manager said he had been training for a comeback.