The incident occurred recently at Mookametsane cattle posts located on the outskirts of Shakwe village. On the fateful day, the deceased, a local man and the suspect, a herder from Zimbabwe, were allegedly hired to maintain a house that was destroyed by the recent heavy rains. Machaneng Police Station commander, Superintendent George Mabuta said the owner of the house went to buy the workers the traditional beer, commonly known as khadi, which they drank whilst doing the maintenance work on the house.
Mabuta explained the owner of the house, who lodged the report with the police, said whilst resting as they were about to knock off, he heard the pair quarrelling over who would take the remaining traditional beer since they didn't finish it. "He said he heard sounds like they were fighting and when he got out of the house he found the deceased lying in a pool of blood with big open wounds on his head and face. "The suspect fled. He said he went to his neighbours to seek help and reported the matter to the police," he said. Mabuta added the police officers the rushed to the crime scene and took the deceased to a local clinic where he was certified dead on arrival by the doctors. The station head said they traced the suspect where he was staying and found an axe with blood stains suspected to have been used to commit the offence. "Through their preliminary investigations, police have since established that the suspect had taken all of his clothes and fled," he said. "We have launched a probe to locate and arrest the suspect and plead with members of the public, especially in the area to help them with information that could lead to his arrest."
