By Lwazi Raul
Mpumalanga MEC for Culture Sports and Recreation, Thandi Shongwe is expected to join hands with many at OR Tambo International Airport in welcoming home Ntando Mahlangu who claimed his second gold medal of the Tokyo Paralympics on Friday, winning the 200m in the T61 category.
Mahlangu, the world record holder in the event, cruised home in a time of 23.59 ahead of Great Britain’s Richard Whitehead in second and Ali Lacin of Germany in third.
Only at 19-years-old, Mahlangu had won silver in this distance back at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio.
Mahlangu hails from the rural Tweefontein in KwaMhlanga, Mpumalanga.
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