Gosh! I am having nightmares from all these gruesome images
online. I literally woke up screaming from one of such nightmares this morning!
And to think that I live in this place! I promised myself not to report on this Xenophobia again but I really can't help this one. The Mozambican pictured above (in red) who has been
identified as Emmanuel Sithole, was brutally stabbed to death in Alexandra Township,
Johannesburg on Saturday in broad day light for being a foreigner in South
Africa. The miscreants were not even moved by his plea for mercy. How
unsettling! Story below as reported by Times Live reporters Beauregard Tromp and
James Oatway,
Outside one spaza shop, a man in a
black corduroy jacket and red shirt was walking along the road.
Suddenly a young man dressed in a
grey tracksuit jacket beat him over the head with a wrench. The red-shirt man
tried to fend off the blows, his arms raised. He stumbled back, falling into
rubbish strewn by the roadside. The blows with the wrench rained down. Then the
bludgeoning stopped and the man with the wrench moved away.
"Are we safe here?" asked a
South African woman watching the attack.
The man in the red shirt got up. Now
another man with a beige spottie approached, holding an okapi knife high above
his head. Again, the man in the red shirt raised his hands, pleading for mercy.
But his pleas were in vain. He was stabbed ... again and again.
Read full story if you are interested. I can only hope that
this case is taken seriously and the people responsible, removed from the
society. Reports this morning claim three suspects related to the case have
been arrested and will appear in court on Tuesday, 21st April.
Please if you live in these funny areas, stay safe and happy.
Xoxo
Source: www.timeslive.co.za
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