People stood by while a Mozambican man, Emmanuel Sithole, was cornered, stabbed in the heart and left to die. This happened yesterday in Johannesburg and yes, he died from his wounds. Killed just for being from another African country.. and the story told by the journalist who witnessed this brutal stabbing is heartbreaking! See more photos and read the full story from Times Live after the cut...

The brutal death of Emmanuel Sithole 
As told by Beauregard Tromp and James Oatway for Timeslive.co.za

Shortly before 7am yesterday April 18th, Sunday Times journalists were in Alexandra township, near Sandton, speaking to shop owners who had their businesses looted overnight. Children played, people walked the streets, some stopped to gawk at the carnage from the night before. Then this happened ...

In a gutter in Alexandra a Mozambican man stopped and lay down. The gash to his chest meant he could go no further.

At the day clinic less than 100m away they could not help him. The doctor scheduled to be on duty did not show up because he was a foreigner and feared being a victim of xenophobia.
It began on Friday night when mobs blockaded Arkwright Avenue, one of the main thoroughfares in Alexandra, with rubble and burning tyres. Foreign-owned shops' roofs were ripped open and metal gates torn away as looters went on the rampage.

Outside one spaza shop, a man in a black corduroy jacket and red shirt was walking along the road.
Suddenly a young man dressed in a grey tracksuit jacket beat him over the head with a wrench. The red-shirt man tried to fend off the blows, his arms raised. He stumbled back, falling into rubbish strewn by the roadside. The blows with the wrench rained down. Then the bludgeoning stopped and the man with the wrench moved away.

"Are we safe here?" asked a South African woman watching the attack.
The man in the red shirt got up. Now another man with a beige spottie approached, holding an okapi knife high above his head. Again, the man in the red shirt raised his hands, pleading for mercy. But his pleas were in vain. He was stabbed ... again and again.


The two grappled and fell to the floor. The man with the wrench returned. Finally, a lanky young man sprinted towards the man among the rubbish, kicking him in the head. The young man pulled a butcher's knife. A man in a black leather jacket who had discouraged the attack grabbed the wrist with the butcher's knife. The attackers fled.


The red-shirt man tried to get up but fell. Finally he made it to his feet. Feebly, he walked up the road.
Do you know why they attacked you? Who are you? Where are you from, we asked him.
He turned his head towards the questions fired at him, his face pleading. He said nothing. His shirt was drenched, a 2cm gash in his chest.

Metres further he stumbled and lay down in the gutter. He struggled to sit up and fell down

Help me get him into the car. Help me, please," said photographer James Oatway, looking around at the men gathered around him. One stepped forward, reluctantly.
Up the road, at Alexandra Day Clinic, nurses did what they could. There was no doctor; he would have to be taken to Edenvale Hospital.

Along the way the man was flailing wildly, sitting up, lying down, wincing with pain. The wound to his chest was gushing now.

At Edenvale Hospital a lone gurney stood at the entrance. The porters sat in a room with tinted windows. Oatway pleaded for help. The man in the car was critical, he said.

Slowly one porter rose and scribbled in a book. Then the other, both now ambling towards the hospital entrance. Inside the car the red shirt-man looked lifeless.

"He's dead. We can't take him," one porter pronounced.
There was no pulse. Then a gag reflex. He's alive.

Inside the ICU, doctors compressed his chest, massaging his heart. After nearly seven minutes a ventilator was used. Shortly after 9am Emmanuel Sithole was pronounced dead. He was Mozambican. The stab wound to his chest had penetrated his heart.

In his pockets, R285 and 10c in change and a cellphone. His phone would ensure he did not die nameless.

On his wrist, three armbands read: "United for Bafana"

R.i.p

Source:Linda Ikeji blog# may his soul rest in Peacem... say No to xenophobia

Why it the heart of men so wicked...
People stood there watching someone being killed for no reason why SAs
#saynotoxenophobia

The question I asked and am still asking. Wetin person dey find go for a place like this.
Bh dey attack pple homeland. The indigenes really don't have somewhere else to go .But for immigrants in sa , what are u even looking for in that place that is worth ur life.
Racist, immoral,xenophobic,cowardly,and closet misogynistic beings , and u chose to rush there and live with dem.
Go to where you are celebrated not tolerated.
Tolerance wears out and then. . . . Xenophobia . ..

The kind of shoutin dat wil happen on d last day.. Lord hav mercy

this is evil of the highest order!!!
like a Pastor said....the human mind without christ is capable of any and everything...see ISIS...see SA ...
i weep for the human race, conscience has been erased!!!
how did we get here...

No matter how sinful he is, his blood will stl scream to his maker. Judgement begins on earth. Yet they preach on the good samaritan...... God has seen it.

Happywoman:

The question I asked and am still asking. Wetin person dey find go for a place like this.
Bh dey attack pple homeland. The indigenes really don't have somewhere else to go .But for immigrants in sa , what are u even looking for in that place that is worth ur life.
Racist, immoral,xenophobic,cowardly,and closet misogynistic beings , and u chose to rush there and live with dem.
Go to where you are celebrated not tolerated.
Tolerance wears out and then. . . . Xenophobia . ..

mind u, they are not only misogynistic beings, they are also misandristic

they should remember that nothing last forever

Not fair at all

This is very pathetic, so heart-breaking
RIP to the Dead!!!

the attack by the south Africans is uncivilized, barbaric, cruel, evil, disgusting, Carlos and painful. the Zulus should remembers that they have there nationals in other countries, if they will should be treated likewise. left to me, they have lost respect, honour and dignity to the rest of the world and this will forever remain in history. #stopXENOPHOBIAinSA

the Xenophobic attack by the south Africans is uncivilized, barbaric, cruel, evil, disgusting, Carlos and painful. the Zulus should remembers that they have there nationals in other countries, if they will should be treated likewise. left to me, they have lost respect, honour and dignity to the rest of the world and this will forever remain in history. #stopXENOPHOBIAinSA

What have we degraded to? That human life has little or no value?.... these attacks have been a serious source of sober reflection for me.

It is the nature of the african (and yes, I spelt that with a small a) to be hateful and wicked to each other. Note that South Africa has immigrants from all over the world, Indians and Chinese included. But the attackers wouldn't dare lay a finger on these other people. Africans will allow these other types of people to treat then openly disrespectfully but see how they will massacre each other at the slightest provocation. Where does this tendency to act like brutes and savages from? And we wonder why the world looks at us the way it does? No wonder nobody puts the words intelligence and Africans in the same sentence.

May the poor man's soul RIP.

This has never happened in Nigeria.
Are there no South Africans in other African countries?

Believing in supernatural causes of evil is unnecessary, men alone is quite capable of every wickedness...(Joseph conrad)

This is very appalling and heart breaking. The South African govt should reign in the Zulu cowards, else other countries would be force to retaliate in whichever way they can.

Rip to the deceased and i pray that God should intervene for all those foriegners living in SA.

This is wickedness!

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I cry cry cry for what is happening in SA. The best approach to this now is economic sanctions against SA.

Wow. Is this the country of Nelson Mandela? Everything the old man said went over their heads. Very pathetic.

Barbaric Zulu doormats.

Chai,
i feel like crying,
this pathetic South africans deserved apartheid

reflx:
this is evil of the highest order!!!
like a Pastor said....the human mind without christ is capable of any and everything...see ISIS...see SA ...
i weep for the human race, conscience has been erased!!!
how did we get here...

Hmm, its a terrible time we live in. Good one.

alienvirus:
I cry cry cry for what is happening in SA. The best approach to this now is economic sanctions against SA.

their company MTN just sent to me.