Zim man up for SA murder A police officer escorts Andrew Chimboza, a Zimbabwean who was found guilty of murder in South Africa in this file photo
  • He beat up, stabbed live-in lover aged 14
  • Teenage girl’s corpse stashed under bed
A police officer escorts Andrew Chimboza, a Zimbabwean who was found guilty of murder in South Africa in this file photo

A police officer escorts Andrew Chimboza, a Zimbabwean who was found guilty of murder in South Africa in this file photo

Mashudu Netsianda Senior Reporter
A 27 YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean man based in Bredasdorp, Western Cape in South Africa has been arrested for allegedly killing his 14-year-old girlfriend and hiding the body under a bed at his home.

Western Cape provincial police spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Andre Traut, said the teenager’s body was discovered under the suspect’s bed on Sunday morning at his home in Zwelitsha.

He identified the girl as Elba Japhta of Bredasdorp.

Lt Col Traut said they were still investigating the circumstances surrounding the murder.

“The girl was staying with the suspect at his home in Bredasdorp. The girl was beaten and stabbed to death. We’re however, still trying to establish the circumstances surrounding the matter,” he said.

Police said the girl had been living with the suspect for two years.

Lt Col Traut said the suspect is expected to appear in the Bredasdorp Magistrates Court today facing a murder charge.

According to South African media reports, the Bredasdorp Community Police Forum alleges that the child had been in a relationship with the suspect for the past two years.

Social Development MEC Albert Fritz said his department was sending a team of social workers to the family of the murdered child.

“We continue to urge parents to play the greatest role in ensuring we protect and provide an enabling space for our children. If you see something, say something,” said Fritz.

Another Zimbabwean cannibal who killed a man before cutting out his heart and eating it with a knife and fork was last month jailed for 18 years.

Andrew Chimboza launched the horrific attack on 62-year-old Mbuyiselo Manona after a heated argument in Cape Town’s Gugulethu Township in June 2014.

The 35-year-old claimed that Manona initially attacked him because he thought he was sleeping with his girlfriend.

Chimboza retaliated by slitting his throat and stabbing him multiple times.

He then chopped out his victim’s heart “because it was full of hatred and jealousy, but he later confessed that he didn’t know why he had eaten it.

Chimboza pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced at Western Cape High Court by Judge Ashley Binns-Ward who described the assault as “extremely brutal.”

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