Ekurhuleni metro police on Thursday saved a man and a woman from a mob in Tokoza after rumours spread that they were practising witchcraft.
"At around 6pm, a 69-year-old man was cornered by a mob of about 300. They had tyres and just as they were about to burn him, police came to the scene," said metro police spokesperson Inspector Jimmy Maboko.
The man was taken to the Tokoza police station but residents managed to burn down his house in Thinthwa section. While firefighters were battling the blaze, police got a tip-off that the same crowd had gathered at the house of a 60-year-old woman, alleged to have been "working with" the man.
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"They wanted to kill this woman for witchcraft and burn the house down," said Maboko. Police helped her and three children escape through the back door.
The man and woman were neither related nor married. The man had apparently been married to a sangoma who died in 2003, said Maboko.
He said no arrests had been made but that police were investigating a case of arson and would take the matter from there. - Sapa
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