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24 Jan 2015

Author:
Lerato Mbangeni and Sheree Bega, iol (So. Africa)

So.Africa: Malawian shopkeeper dies after being mutilated, set alight

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'Old shopkeeper gutted, set alight in Soweto', 22 Jan 2015: When they found him, his intestines were hanging out and his penis had been doused with paraffin and set alight. The 74-year-old whom the residents…affectionately called M’dala (Old Man) had the wooden door hacked off his meagre shop and was murdered as he slept…Dan Mokwena…spoke fondly of the Malawian shopkeeper. “He was a good man…He was an old man. There was no need to kill him like that,”… 

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