Malawian killed in Soweto attacks:  His penis doused

January 24, 2015 Nyasa Times Reporter 73 Comments

A  74 year old Malawian  shop owner  has been attacked and killed in South Africa following attacks and they disembowelled him as he slept in his shop in the early hours of Wednesday morning.death1

The murder comes as widespread looting of foreigners’ stores has broken out in Soweto.

The looting was sparked when a foreign national allegedly shot and killed a teenager while a group of boys attempted to rob his store in Snake Park on Monday.

Residents responded to the shooting by looting foreign-owned stores and blockading streets in the area.

Reports indicated that the assailants had hacked the door off the 74-year-old Malawian’s shop early on Wednesday morning, attacking him while he slept.

The Malawian, who was known as M’dala to residents, also had his penis doused in paraffin and set alight.

“He was a good man who lived alone. All he had was his small shop, where he sold paraffin, sweets and some biscuits and the small corn garden he’d planted,” resident Dan Mokwena told The Star newspaper of South Africa .

“He was blind in one eye and partially deaf. He was an old man. There was no need to kill him like that,” Mokwena said.

Reports indicate that Malawians and other foreigners are facing new wave of xenophobia as the locals are chasing them calling them “makwerekwere”.

Makwerekwere is slang for foreigner.

The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation expressed concern at the spate of attacks on foreign business owners in Soweto. It said the attacks formed a pattern similar to the 2008 xenophobic violence and “condemn them as such.”

Sapa reports that nearly 70 people have been arrested on charges including murder, robbery, public violence, and illegal possession of firearms. Eight of them were foreign nationals allegedly found in possession of unlicensed firearms.

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73 replies on “Malawian killed in Soweto attacks:  His penis doused”

  1. am rily sad 4 wat hapen 2my bro.we malawians we ar
    e blessd lets nt fight wt.only God know.we have hope and faith.let kip walking and nt 4get our home koz we wil go to our blongz 1day.we aint dstned 2 b hea bt koz we r poor.

  3. The sad truth that most of South Africans refuse to acknowledge is that the majority of them are just laizy bones who expect the government to provide everything freely. unlike foreign nationals who come into the country with an ultimate goal, and believe me, unlike most of African countries, South Africa is full of possibilities, one just needs a will to utilise these tremmendous opportunities. God blessed this country for a reason, and I always argue that no country on earth has no foreigners, irrespective of its economic state. Foreigners have been here before and will still be here after them,therefore they must just deal with it.
    To those who keep saying that we must come back home, please get real, we left our home country for various reasons apart from poverty, for some coming back to Malawi is a suicide mission, therefore the least you can do is to pray for us so that our lives are spared from these tragedies.

  5. RSA is more less like a grave, many inocent foreigners have gone the way of all the earth.
    RSA’s pipo r very lazy they only kno how to kill, but not how to work. God sees from a distance, they wil b paid later.

  6. This is very sad indeed. Something similar to this happened in Mzuzu and Lilongwe I think. Mmmmmm lord have mercy.

  7. I’m vry concerned 4wht the s.african done 2 my fellow malawian.This happen due 2 lack of awareness,transparents, civic of Education & the like.Off course, we can say high rate of unemployment definitely S.african r lazy.what they know iz stealing,according nyasatimes report hm got small shop.His aim behind inorder 2save food 4evrydy.May he soul rest in peace

  13. All that I can say is that poverty is what makes us Malawians go to other countries to seek greener pasture. But in South Africa ,there is no greener pasture but only torture such killings, and other primitive activities. My appeal is that we Malawians should learn to live in our own country and let develop it though poor

  14. This is very sad indeed, how can they kill a fellow human being like that! I ask the authority to stop this xenophobic violence at once to avoid further dearths.South Africans must know that foreigners are playing a very big role on the development of south Africa! Those who are busy killing foreigners are lazy they just want to steal from foreigners. Lord have mercy on all foreigners in RSA.Do not let any evil to happen to them in the name of Jesus! may the soul of mdala rest in peace, Amen.

  17. These black south africans are afraid of their fellow Africans in their country. They fear other africans will end up dominating in theim in terms economy etc they claim immigrants are “stealing” their jobs, but the truth is, those same foreigners acquire these same jobs due to qualifications not due to any sort of corruption or napotism whatsoever and in essence we can say that foreigners are an essential driving force in the SA economy and yet due to jealous or some sort of animosities, these ignorant people, they attack the foreigners and loot their shops. One thing for sure, it is ironical that they attack AFRICAN foreigner; I mean given the history of discrimination in that country. The only people they should fear are the Guptas not innocent Africans who are just trying to earn a living…. What a shame !

  18. Those of you who have been following the events on SABC must have pleasantly noted that SA Govt officials swiftly acted on the situation. Yesterday, officials had a meeting with the foreign shop owners who were assured of safety and protection. Both sides apologized to each other, and I believe ernestly so. Soweto residents have also apologized for the chipolowe and are even pleading with shop owners to return. Forgive and love lesson there!!!

  28. Searching for green pastures expect to meet snakes in those pastures and believe me or not, we are here kumudzi sometimes living and treated like foreigners and yet u r happy. We don’t have hope or even hopeless we don’t have then clapping hands for ourselves with a reason that we are home for nothing. We Malawians our case is terrible. #big man R.I.P Wasn’t ur wish but poverty that’s the only wound u had while alive.

  31. Pliz African leaders dont b quite,,,do something about this..africans r suffering in their own continent

  38. Xenophobia will not stop until obwera onse atachoka.I have been in that country for 21 years as minister of the word.late me tell you that the word kwelekwele is bettet than silwane.this word means an animal and all foreign nationals are animals and are no different to dogs.kukwatilana nawo means chinyama chakwatilana ndimunthu.The foreigner death is animal death.research the word.

  45. Ndiye Joweni imeneyo akati violence ndiye nambala.Blaming foreigners for their own laziness.Sad for an old man.

  47. West, East or North, South always home is the best. But with the situation in Malawi, people have no choice but to emigrate. Nobody, I say nobody is happy in a foreign country. Malawians abroad want to go back home but what will they going to do. Unemployment is high in the country. Malawians are abused, killed abroad but nothing they can do. So please don’t blame them, but blame our selfish, corrupt leaders we had in the past 50 years.

    1. But the guy was not employed too, he could also do his business here. Don’t despise your country that much, others are coming in here to work, Pakistanis, Ethiopians etc. It depends on how best you think and work.

  48. There is nothing in Malawi. Even if there is xenophobia, life is very good. That’s many foreign nationals stick around. It is easy to make money in South Africa compared to Malawi. Yes, this man was selling paraffin and biscuits, but he making money. If you make R5000 a month, it is K200 000

    Every wk thousands Malawians enter RSA to find jobs. They are running away from poverty in Malawi. For many Malawians, xenophobia or no xenophobia they prefer to stay in RSA where people can create jobs and survive. There are certain Malawians who burn and sell Malawian music @ R10. They make over K120 000 per month. Mind u RSA is the second largest economy in Africa. People are after kudya.

  53. Don’t say Foreign-owned shops BUT African foreigners shops. Mbuli zili ku. South Africa sizimazikuwa kt mzungu akachoka kuAmerica/Europe etc ndi foreigner. Furthermore, Afican leaders are just kwaeti while their pple are terrorised in their own continent.

    RIP Mdala

  56. ASAAAAAAA…SOUTH AFRICANS ARE LIKE ISLAMISTS….THEY THINK THEY ARE THE CHOSEN ONES IN AFRICA… JUST AS ISIL THINK THEY ARE PERFECT….NO WONDER THE EVIL HAPPENING IN THEIR COUNTRY WIILL NEVER STOP.

  58. cm home we kno sm of u in rsa live a life of an escaped prisoner. do come back b4 they treat u to an early hell of fire. home is home.

  59. Very sad development. South Africa is a very dangerous country to live in. May His poor soul rest in eternal peace!!

  66. very sad issue to hear that one of us he lost his life on violence which it had happen on wesday.Because so many malawian we are here in south african also any thing can happen to us.What I can say is that we must put every thing in handofGod, and he w’ll help us in tomfoolery

  71. Very sad to hear of this. Please don’t go to South Africa and open shops. Rather come home and open shops here. Yes we don’t have electricity and water but South Africa is going the same way so it’s better at home here

    1. I feel for the foreighners in rsa cause they didn’t like living their country.I don’t condone this at all but I don’t like the influx issue too.our brothers are struggling because of cheap labour.I believe that before you can offer food to your neighbours there must be enough food for us 1st.

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