SA athletic champion severely beaten in alleged racial attack in Potch
Johannesburg – A 22-year-old Boston College student and top athlete was attacked and severely beaten in Potchefstroom, in what his friend has labelled a racially motivated attack.
The incident happened last week just outside one of the North West University campuses. The university has condemned the attack.
Thabang Mosiako, the South African 5000m national athletic title holder, was set to travel to Algeria for the African Champs in March, but may not be able to do so.
According to Mosiako’s friend Rantso Mokopane, 23, who posted a photo on Facebook of the champion in hospital after the attack, the racially motivated attack left Mosaiko with severe head trauma.
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