A Zimbabwean national was stoned to death by a mob in Seshego north-west of Polokwane, Limpopo police said on Tuesday.
“The allegations levelled against foreign nationals there is that they are involved in criminal activity and a group of people went about intimidating them,” said Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi.
“Unfortunately, there was a Zimbabwean national who was cornered by this group and then they stoned him to death.
“Other victims had their houses vandalised and their belongings were thrown out of their houses.”
The man was stoned at Section 75 in Seshego around 8pm on Monday.
Mulaudzi said there were “groups” intimidating foreign nationals.
The police’s public order unit from Polokwane managed to disperse most of these groups and were still deployed in the area on Tuesday morning to keep the peace.
“These irresponsible people wanted to cause mayhem but the situation has calmed down now,” said Mulaudzi.
TKay
Why only target black foreigners - cause we even have white people who are foreigners and who are also not up to no good. People should stop being narrow minded and selfish. Crime is a national problem and its even committed by fellow South AfricansReport Abuse
Thandile
Will Apartheid also get the blame for this ?? Its the ANC which opened the borders to South Africa, and not Mugabe. These people must be as close to animals as you can get - killing humans with stones, or must I say, worse than animals.Report Abuse
ApelMankotsana
The issue of killing of foreign nationals musgt be addressed as a matter of extreme urgency. The problem with our government is, they do not want to address the root causes of xenophobic killings/assaults, instead they keep on accusing South Africans of being xenophobic. I believe that there are factors which lead community to attacking foreign nationals and it the duty of the government to seriously deal with the root causes and not the symptoms. I know there are South Africans out there who committs crimes daily, but it becomes more irritating if a foreign national commit a crime in our country.Report Abuse
spaceboi
I bet this story doesn't get 365 comments like the main story this morning. This kind of racism is acceptable.Report Abuse
K-love
Its a gud thing 2 do in the rural of Polokwane Zimbabwean rape,robb an kill South African Citizen. Why must we fill pity if they kill Zimbabwean.Report Abuse
TCTLHAPI
TKaymy sister why do you involve whites in your comment,why dont you accept that our ppl where out of line commiting something we all know is against the law.sometimes we need to be responsible when commenting
Thandile
ANC has nothing to do with this matter only irresponsible ppl need to be fixed we have choices and those who commited where adults who knows right and wrong
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noto
A zimbabean told me he will be-witch me after i bterminated his work in my placeReport Abuse
Nicholaster
Most of South African crimes are created by foreign nationals, including hijaking, muti-murders, etc And these people they corrupting our oxygen, you can't stand for their smell. Our goverment making them special more than South Africans. South Africans have rights to commit crime, because they are hungry, not foreign national, they must commit that crime in their hometown not South Africa. That stupid old man (desmond tutu) told them that RSA is a rainbow country, we are not rainbows old man, we are South African!Report Abuse
spaceboi
@Nicholaster - "South Africans have rights to commit crime"I thought I'd heard everything 'till then. What a load of cr@p!
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