Mozambican man butchered in the street as he begged for mercy – A person who fled to South Africa hoping of a better life was brutally murdered by a mob who are considered to have attacked him solely because he came from Mozambique.
Shocking images capture the moment the armed gang surround Emmanuel Sithole and repeatedly stab him with knives and bludgeon him with a wrench in Alexandra township near Johannesburg.
In a chilling twist the victim was left bleeding to death in a gutter because a medical centre just 300 feet away was closed for the day because the doctor who worked there was also a foreigner and feared becoming a victim of a xenophobic attack himself.
Doctors tried in vain to save Mr Sithole’s life. His cause of death was later established as a direct stab wound to the heart and his identity established from a mobile phone found in his pocket
The brutal attack was captured on camera on Saturday morning by a journalist from South Africa’s Sunday Times newspaper who was in the neighbourhood to interview a number of foreign-born shopkeepers who’d had their businesses looted overnight.
But as children played in the streets and onlookers stopped to inspect the damage from the previous evening, the Mozambique-born passer-by was brutally attacked without warning by a man carrying a metal wrench.
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