Last weekend was bad for athletes in South Africa

[MajGenl.Meade]

Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates captain Senzo Meyiwa was shot dead during a home invasion. Female welterweight boxer Phindile Mwelase, 31, died at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria after being in a coma for two weeks following a devastating blow to the head in a boxing match. Middle-distance runner was killed in a car crash.

A young and rising football player dies for a cell phone and a few rands. A woman is pounded to death by another woman for the amusement of hundreds - all forms of boxing should be banned but women's boxing is disgusting. An Olympic silver medalist becomes yet another digit in South Africa's horrendous road accident statistics - this time a single car loss of control, which makes a change from the multiple-death taxi crashes.

It all seems to mean something but I'm blessed if I know what

[Gob]

A woman is pounded to death by another woman for the amusement of hundreds - all forms of boxing should be banned but women's boxing is disgusting.

I couldn't disagree more.

[BoSoxGal]

Have you seen any of that new MMA-style fighting, Meade? Even worse than old-fashioned boxing, and women do that, too!

I've love to live to see 'sports' including violence eradicated from our cultures.

Seriously, people wonder why violence is so prevalent in societies that celebrate violence as 'sport' or 'entertainment'??

[MajGenl.Meade]