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have been responsible for getting the young offenders
into trouble in the first place – violence and aggression
– as the tool to help them make alternative and positive
decisions about their future and their relationship with
others.
There are rules in boxing that parallel those in life:
respect for others, abiding by the referee’s decisions,
accepting the judge’s verdict and when the fight is over,
the need to move on. The participants are introduced
to positive role models from their experiences at
Fight with Insight and are able to follow the educational messages in a positive and enjoyable context.
The belief is that young people need to be guided to
behave appropriately through life-skills training rather
than through a punitive criminal justice system.
Mr Anton Gilmore runs the Fight with Insight program.
He is a renowned boxing promotor, who challenged
Cassius Baloyi in 1997 in Johannesburg for the Super
Bantamweight World Championship. As a firm believer
that community work is essential to wean young people
off from crime and violence, his motto is: “If you fight
on the street, then you can’t fight in my gym.”
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Fight with Insight is a boxing project for young offenders who have completed their diversion programme
– an element of the South African youth justice system.
Young people often enter the diversion programmes
via the courts and are thus not necessarily willing
participants. But by offering boxing as a