Beating the rich man's blues with boxing lessons for township kids

17 July 2016 - 02:00
By EDDIE BOTHA

Wealthy Constantia resident Cassian Coquelle has swapped his Ferrari for a microbus to ferry underprivileged teens to the boxing school he built with his inheritance.Coquelle has used some of the money he and his sister, Tamzyn Botha, received from the R550-million sale of his father's company, Partquip, in 2014, to set up the nonprofit boxing academy in Muizenberg, Cape Town.

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