Morake spent her school days reading a lot about martial arts and following the likes of former boxer, Thuso Khubamang. Three years ago she decided to take up boxing, in part because of her brother, Norman, who had a keen interest in the sport."I read a lot about martial arts. I wasn't much into boxing until three years ago when I fell in love with it," she tells Mmegi Sport.
"I thought I could do something with it." Three years down the line, Morake sees herself as the beginning of women's boxing in the country"When it started there was not much - we didn't have women in the BDF (Botswana Defence Force) or football and everybody is now following. So this is just the beginning. I'm the beginning of women's boxing in the country," she said, just after winning her bout against Keneilwe Rakhudu of SSKB. The Botho Boxing Club pugilist emerged the victor in the tightly contested inter-club boxing tournament bout last weekend. This was her second tournament fight after taking part in the preliminaries of the national championships last year where she failed to get an opponent in the final.
