Cape Town - A Zimbabwean man was beaten to death in Imizamo Yethu on Sunday, Hout Bay police spokeswoman Tanya Lesch reported on Tuesday night.
Sam Budhala was one of two men murdered in the township, Lesch said in a report posted on the Hout Bay Neighbourhood Watch website.
Lesch said a morning police patrol in Imizamo Yethu had noticed a commotion and found Budhala dead in Sobukwe Street.
“It seemed as if the victim had been beaten,” Lesch wrote on the website.
“The 35-year-old Sam Budhala, a Zimbabwean, was declared dead on the scene.
“It is alleged that there was a fight earlier during the day between the victim and the community.”
Hours earlier
, Benny Magengelele, 23, of Imizamo Yethu, died in hospital after being stabbed in the chest in Mkhonto Street, Lesch said.
She said a person had taken in for questioning, but then released.
In another incident on Sunday, in Salmander Road in Hangberg, four men armed with knives and a gun robbed a bread deliveryman of his phone and money, Lesch said.
“After robbing the victim the suspects fled on foot.”
No arrests had been made, Lesch said.
Imizamo Yethu was one of several areas affected by the countrywide xenophobic attacks in 2008 when foreigners were killed, injured or chased from their homes.
In Cape Town, authorities accomodated displaced people from Imizamo Yethu, Dunoon and Masiphumelele, among other places, in tents in Strandfontein, Gordon’s Bay and the SANDF base in Wynberg.
Cape Times