The two men found guilty of killing Mozambican national Emmanuel Sithole have been sentenced to 10 and 17 years respectively.

Mthinta Bhengu (accused #1) was sentenced to 17 years in prison while Sifundo Mzimela (accused #4) has been sentenced to a 10 years  imprisonment in the Johannesburg Magistrate Court on Monday.

The duo was part of the four men who were accused of killing Sithole in the street of Alexandra in November 2015.

Accused number three has since been released on set conditions.

The magistrate referred to the photographs taken by the Sunday Times shortly before he died, saying it forced South Africans to watch him die, as he lay pleading for his life in the mud.

The State had earlier requested that Bhengu get a minimum of 15 years and Mzimzela between eight and 10 years in prison.

Sithole was stabbed to death during a wave of xenophobic violence in Alexandra in April 2015.

_{*additional reporting by News24*}