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Former dual flyweight and bantamweight boxing champion, Christopher Dlamini, is one of several boxers worldwide that suffer from the after-effects of the combat sport.

The 71-year-old has poor eyesight and experiences occasional memory lapses. He now lives in an old-age home at Zwide in Port Elizabeth.

Like many of his contemporaries, he believes that if black fighters had had benevolent funds, their lives now would have been different.

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