World Boxing Council championship belt stolen from museum

JOHANNESBURG –
A World Boxing Council championship belt belonging to former South African President Nelson Mandela has been stolen from a museum in Soweto, in accordance with police.
The belt was given to Mandela by American boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard throughout considered one of his visits to South Africa.
It was considered one of many artifacts contained in the Nelson Mandela Nationwide Museum, a serious vacationer attraction for native and worldwide vacationers.
Mandela, a former novice boxer, revered the belt and it was prominently displayed within the museum in a home the place he as soon as lived in Soweto township, west of Johannesburg.
The museum is without doubt one of the high points of interest on Vilakazi Road, the one road on this planet to assert two Nobel laureates as former residents. Mandela and the late anti-apartheid stalwart Archbishop Desmond Tutu each lived on the road.
In response to police, the belt was stolen when thieves broke into the museum, popularly known as Mandela Home, and the theft was reported to police on July 1.
No suspects have been arrested and police have appealed for any info associated to the theft, police spokeswoman Dimakatso Sello stated.
Mandela turned South Africa’s first democratically elected chief in 1994 after spending 27 years in jail for his battle towards apartheid, the brutal system of white minority rule in impact within the nation from 1948 to 1994.