South African man shot dead in Karonga, Malawi Police confirms

July 5, 2015 Tiwonge Kumwenda -Nyasa Times 87 Comments

Police in Karonga the northern border district of Malawi are hunting for a criminal gang who have shot dead a South African citizen and robbed him a bag containing cash amounting to 200 US Dollars  in the early morning of Saturday at Mufwa Lodge where he camped with his friends.

According to the eye witness , Bosco Kanyika who is a watchman at the lodge the incident happened around 2am on Saturday morning.

The South African man – his identity is being withheld – was on holiday in Karonga when a female traveller woke to three armed men in her tent.

“The thugs first shot in the air and then attacked the South African,” said Kanyika.

“One of the thugs wanted to shoot me but the grace of God I was spared,” he added.

Karonga Police Officer in Charge Edward Chingayipe said the body of the South African who is in his mid 50s from Ballito in Durban, is at the local hospital in Karonga.

He said police were investigating the incident.

The development comes after another Botswana citizen was also shot dead in Karonga at Kiwe roadblock in the month of June this year.

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87 replies on “South African man shot dead in Karonga, Malawi Police confirms”

  3. Please my fellow citizens, lets not destroy the good image of our mother Malawi with death for USD 200.

  4. This is barbaric – Malawi needs tourists, now they are being shot for USD200; that is sad. Insecurity is worst in Malawi, and unfortunately the police is involved. When will Malawi be run as a normal country.

  5. 200 dollars ndi ndalama yochepa kwambiri yoti timatha kuyipeza mu chovala chamwana mu bale la zovala siyochosera moyo wa munthu iyayi ndi umphawi wanji amalawi?

  6. Y not be a shamed, mukafika nayo kuti ndalama yochepa ngati imeneyo kungotenga mbiri apa

  7. B ashammed of your deeds guys. 200$ zoona!??.
    Uncle mary amakhala pa Lilongwe bridge amakwanitsa kupempha ndalama ngat imeneyi pamwezi osaphela munthu.

  8. Rest in peace. My special condoles to oh South African who are here in Malawi, we hopes zat Malawi iz good country since 1942. We as Malawian, we wll work wth de cvops for investigate dis inceadent. Ah de gunsters who z killng an innocent pples its nt aMalawian bt from othr country whch z cross to us. May hs soul rest in peace

  9. Actually let’s hope these gangsters are not Malawians, they might be from Tanzania.

  11. Where does these criminals get the cuflings the uniform they dress when robbing pple?????yeah ask urself why this happening? It’s better they take this robbery to the houses of the government minister other than the tourists. Pple live in poverty because of these government officials they keep bags of money in their homes!!!! Go get them criminals!!!

  12. To read some of the comments, specially numbers 22,28,33 and 36 is quite appalling.
    The tourist was killed for $ 200, and this would hurt the Malawian tourist industry, and these comments mentioned is totally out of order.
    Wake up guys who posted these comments, you are a disgrace for your country

  15. Why do you not allow my previous post on this forum? Was I too close to the truth? The truth hurts sometimes – have the guts to let people say what they feel. Typical African mentality.

  19. The fact that this has happened in karonga doesn’t mean that its karonga people who have done it. Thats shallow thinking. There is insecurity throughout the country at the moment which is a concern to all of us and don’t bring tribalistic comments here

  21. Before u fight crime…make sure you fight poverty first.He has been shot by pple who know him…investigate the case propa.What a corrupt government

  28. Eish people it SAYS $200—– TWO HUNDRED dollars. That is equal to R 2400— Two THOUSAND *RAND*
    It was probably just traveling money, there are no banks in the Bush where the article says he was *camping*. A rubbish parasite criminal robbed and killed an innocent tourist to your country for the price of a cell phone. Sounds like that extremest muslim in Tunisia who killed alll those tourists on the beach. No wonder there are so many Malawians in SA.

  29. Malawians umbuli umatipweteka kwambili Nanga apa palembedwa 200 us dollars apa anthu mukuti 200,000 Ena mpaka K100 million. Chifukwa mumangoyankha zinthu zopanda umboni

  30. Kkkkkkkkkk Lutundu is $200 a lot of money??????? Plus Minus R2800 a lot of money for a traveller????? Less than K100 000 a lot of money, really????? It’s a shame that those thugs have got blood in their hands for such peanuts.

  33. Some of these criminals are from TZ. They usually target such places as lodges, resthouses.

    Be very careful when giving them places. Ask watchmen at William Koyi in mzuzu. They r smartly such dresses that u cannot become suspicious at all. Very friendly as well. they would speak your local languages very well. catch them they change to swahili no communication.

  35. Mbuzi ya luma galu zisativutepo apa howmany malawians akumenyedwa kuphedwa chumachomwe ndidapanga 5yrs ndidachisiya kwanuko mutandithamangitsa nkumati iwas ilegary staying there zimandiwawa

  36. Ku Karonga muli atsikana okongola.That why even Yaya Toure could not resist Karonga women.Even tourists are flocking to our place.These criminals are just there to dent the name of the beautiful Karonga district.

  39. Goverment recruit alots of police oficers bt they dnt equip them.Dis criminalz are puting our lives in danger.We pipo wrkin in RSA.

  41. This will discourage tourist industry. We live in the cyber world now, one bad review can destroy the whole Malawian tourism. Put up a cash rewald for these gangs, soon or later someone will talk.May her soul rest in peace

  43. InU A NYAKARONGA MWAYAMBA ZOPUSA. YOU WANT TO DENT THE IMAGE OF THE COUNTRY AS A CRIMINAL COUNTRY? pOLICE IN kARONGA AND INUNSO A kACHAMA, DEAL WITH SUCH CRIMINAL ISSUES WITH SERIOUSNESS OTHERWISE IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE THAT THE PRESIDENT INVITED INVESTORS LAST WEEK AND HE MADE IT CLEAR THAT MALAWI IS A SAFE PLACE TO INVEST YET FOREIGNERS ARE BEING KILLED FREQUENTLY.

  50. Well done my brothers ther in Malawi. South African’s are worse than dogs. They r xenophobic, kill them all regardless of de skin colour. Especially the Zulu’s.

  51. While I don’t condone the murder or killing,how can someone travel or walk around with 200 thousand dollars in cash? Such amount of money in Malawi settles someone for life.

    As soon as he found hule with that sort of money that was the end of him. I just hope the gunmen or the guns used are not connected to the police itself.

    I think we need to educate tourists or visitors to Malawi on how they should handle or behave themselves.

      1. Mpoto, thanks for correcting me. You are right. It makes the killing absolutely needless and unwarranted just like any other killing of an innocent human being.

  52. Harry had about two hundred (200) dollars. The figure reported in this article is irresponsible and the commentary thereafter deeply disrespectful to a man who has lost his life and to his family on mourning.

  54. I see people are justifying murder here
    Morally we should not justify murder,why can’t the whole world be like Saudi Arabia and some other countries in the middle East whereby no one is afraid of being robbed?

  57. Is this about dpp?I was born in this country and iwll die in this country count frm mcp, udf wat u call it how many pple were killed?b chritians enouth and look around u wll see wat is appening.

  58. Dis iz bullshit!where were yu when Innocent Malawians were robbed and killed in dat country called Jacobs Zuma?tit fot tat and let dem be killed.Robbers, thanks for that anthu aku Joni are paying for our brothers blood we losted in there country.Blavooooooo and anthu aku Joni musamazimve kuti ndinu nokha mumatha kuomba mfuti.

  60. Is this 2000 or 200, 000? if its later then thugs must have known or tipped that she has all that money. Why on earth travel and sleep with all that money? Something must be wrong with either reporting or her having all that money as cash.

  61. MY FAILL MALAWIANS LETS STOP POINTING FINGER, BECAUSE THIS TIME AROUND SATAANA WALKING WITH BOTH BAREFOOT . NO ONE KNOW THIS , ONLY GOD KNEWS THIS BEFORE ….

  62. Don,t talk politics here it happens even where security is at its best talk usa britain etc what about our on pipo shot and robbed in rsa kusayenda eti why attacking dpp here? Not on this

  63. KILLING INNOCENT PIPO ITS NOT GOOD . LETS MOVE FORWARD WITH AFRICA ,BECAUSE WE CAN NOT BUY LIFE , GOD WELLS ,IN GOD I TRUST …..

  66. There is no way this guy could keep 200 thousand dollars in cash and be left alive anywhere in the world. What was the money for? Banks are meant to handle that risk

  67. The people who killed him must have known that he had all that money. They were known to him. Probably accomplices in something very dirty. Why keeping K1OO million cash like that?

  69. musayiwale kti tidabwera pa mabus tidasiya chuma chathu ku joni komweko ena were killed ngat mmene amuchitira ndiyesizodabwitsa kuona masouthafricans akuphedwa nafeso tikubwezera kodi at that time munaonako apolice aku joni atamanga anthu amene amapha anthu obwera ?ose pano adatuluka if yu w”ll catch em ndinu mbuzi agalu achabechabe

  70. Too bad. May his soul rest in peace. May be he also robbed that money ndiye remember amatola odutsa paja.
    Koma nyasatimes editors chonde edit these articles before publishing. Why do u like publishing with too many errors?????????

  71. Once again, the reporting is extremely poor and has questionable facts. How do you know the man had $200,000 in the bag? Stop lying to Malawians please and become professional.

  74. Chingayipe is doing his job he is hired to do he cares for his job act of criminality are not acceptable in any country including south Africa we can not date criminals no matter reason it is. it is wrong to kill someone.

  75. the amount of the money was too much, and according to the case those thugs have been followd him mybe before he was in karonga

  76. $200,000 is a lot of cash to be carried around or kept in a car or tent. It is very risky. It shud have been in the bank. While I deplore the ruthless murder, I feel this guy is partly to blame.

  77. Watchman knows something please arrest all the worker the truth ll come and u how do u know that he had $200 ,000.00 u r also behind the game

  78. Chitetezo Chilungamo were campaign songs but practical useless to DPP The govt is now showing its true colour. Shame to those who voted for it. Cursed are those who rigged votes. Someone carrying a gun and goes untraced? Let’s go back to MCP! !

  80. There was probably a tip off that a particular person had cash and guys had to strike. On the other hand, how does one carry such a big load of cash? It’s old school and you may find that she was caught up in some mapwevupwevu(partying and drinking) then some dudes followed her up to her lodge. Dpp government will give us an answer cos they are the ones promoting lawlessness to hake with dpp thugs.

  81. Who knew she has all that money? perhaps the cleaner came accross it in the bedroom and informed the gang? just thinking..

  82. $200 000 is more than R2 000 000! What was he doing with so much money? He was breaking the South African law to start with.

  83. Edward you sound intelligent fool where were you when people voted and what did you do with your useless vote, who are you to tell us who to vote for, buy sulf and was your dirty brain and stop accusing DPP for all your failures

  84. Edward chingayipe is a Fool.our malawian national killed at chauma noboday cares about but foreigners you are busy with it.I have been seen malawians robbed and killed for no reason in RSA and nobody cares about it,what a foolish country

  85. CHITETEZO & CHILUNGAMO ( SECURITY & JUSTICE )

    These are the main reasons DPP was voted into power , today Malawi is in a mess , a government of “panga ” zikwanje party is in power.
    WHERE IS MALAWI AND DPP TAKING US TO?

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