JOHANNESBURG – There are calls for an inquiry into why former world boxing champion Corrie Sanders was refused admission to Steve Biko Academic Hospital just hours before he died.

Sanders’s family claims he was turned away after being shot during a robbery at a Brits restaurant because the shooting happened outside the Tshwane council’s borders.

He died at Kalafong Hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Sanders was attending his nephew’s 21st celebrations. The assailants made off with valuables from the patrons.

North West police are still searching for his three killers.

Gauteng Democratic Alliance spokesperson on health Jack Bloom says the former boxer’s chances of survival would have been greater if he was admitted to Steve Biko Academic.

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