Daily Sun (March 18 2015) - ACCORDING TO the people who cornered the man, he had no problem confessing to his deed.
He said his friend owed him R150 and he wanted his money.
HE DIDN'T PAY ME MY MONEY SO I CUT OFF HIS HEAD, HE ALLEGEDLY TOLD BYSTANDERS.
The woman who made the gruesome find of the headless body told Daily Sun she had rented the shack to a man - but he had disappeared.
She said on Monday she was cleaning her yard when she found an old carpet with bloodstains on it behind the shack on her property in Etwatwa, near Daveyton, Ekurhuleni.
The woman, who did not want to be named, said she looked under the carpet and saw what looked like a hand and an elbow in the sand!
She ran to the neighbours to tell them what she had found.
When they went back with her, they dug around in the sand and found the body.
But the head was missing!
When the cops arrived they began to look for the missing head. They searched everywhere with their police dogs, but there was no sign of it.
However, the tenant who had run away didn't get far.
Angry residents found him hiding at a nearby house and he was moered with knobkerries and bricks.
He was saved by cops and taken to the police station and then to hospital.
Alpheus Zwane, one of the residents, said the tenant told him he had killed the man because the man owed him R150.
"He refused to say who he had sold the head to," said Alpheus.
The tenant had packed his belongings into a van and it looked as if he was on the run when he was caught.
The police also found a bloodied screwdriver and wire cutters which were probably used to attack the dead man. Police suspect the man's head was chopped off with a spade.
The man is currently under police guard in hospital.
Yesterday Captain Pearl van Staad confirmed that the head had not been found. She said the suspect had been arrested and charged with murder.
"We interrogated him but he pretended he did not understand what we were asking him," she said.
The owner of the property said the man had rented from her for only a month.
"He looked okay to me. I didn't think he would do something like this.
She said on Sunday she slept over at her sister's place and came back only the following morning.
"I'm scared to sleep in my yard since this thing happened. I appeal to the dead man's relatives to cleanse my yard."
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