People stood by while a Mozambican man, Emmanuel
Sithole, was cornered, stabbed in the heart and left to die. This
happened yesterday in Johannesburg and yes, he died from his wounds.
Killed just for being from another African country.. and the story told
by the journalist who witnessed this brutal stabbing is heartbreaking!
See more photos and read the full story from Times Live after the cut...
The brutal death of Emmanuel Sithole
Shortly before 7am yesterday April 18th, Sunday Times journalists were
in Alexandra township, near Sandton, speaking to shop owners who had
their businesses looted overnight. Children played, people walked the
streets, some stopped to gawk at the carnage from the night before. Then
this happened ...
In a gutter in Alexandra a Mozambican man stopped and lay down. The gash to his chest meant he could go no further.
At
the day clinic less than 100m away they could not help him. The doctor
scheduled to be on duty did not show up because he was a foreigner and
feared being a victim of xenophobia.
It began on Friday night when
mobs blockaded Arkwright Avenue, one of the main thoroughfares in
Alexandra, with rubble and burning tyres. Foreign-owned shops' roofs
were ripped open and metal gates torn away as looters went on the
rampage.
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
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