*WARNING: Graphic video may upset sensitive readers.
This was the scene where a man was moered by the community after he allegedly stabbed his girlfriend to death in Khayelitsha.
The 23-year-old man was arrested for the murder of his 20-year-old victim who died of a chest wound.
A witness, who asked to remain anonymous, says she was preparing to go to church on Sunday around 12pm when the incident happened.
The 56-year-old woman says: “I heard people screaming outside and talking about someone bleeding out on the road.
“When I went out to look, I saw there was a young girl who was on the ground on her back.
“Minutes after I arrived on the scene she died.”
She adds that residents grabbed the suspect and beat him to a pulp.
“He still had his knife with him in his hand and he tried to run away from the crowd.
“But people chased and grabbed and beat him.”
A Makhaza community member recorded a video of the beating.
The 26-second long footage shows angry residents telling him he had guts to kill a woman there.
The suspect is seen sitting on the ground next to the covered body with his hands and feet tied. A female takes the knife from him.
People take turns kicking him, and at one point he falls onto his girlfriend’s body.
“What made the people angry is that neither are from here and he came from wherever he comes from and killed someone,” adds the witness.
“The disrespect from him is something that people hated and that he still wanted to run away from here and leave us with the body.”
The woman says the unidentified victim jumped out of a window after being stabbed.
“She came out the window and went through my neighbour’s yard and fell in the street where she died.
“She left a trail of blood and after she died, people brought a duvet and covered her up.”
Police spokesman Captain FC van Wyk confirmed the 23-year-old suspect’s arrest.
“He was arrested for murder after he allegedly stabbed his girlfriend on Sunday in 42 block Makhaza, Khayelitsha.
“The members attended a crime scene where they found the body of a 20-year-old woman with stab wounds to the chest.
“She was declared dead on the scene and the boyfriend was immediately arrested.”
He is to appear in the Khayelitsha Magistrates’ Court.