A murderer who ate his victim’s heart with a knife and fork in a bizarre bid ‘to prove he wasn’t gay’ has been jailed for 18 years in South Africa.

Zimbabwean Andrew Chimboza pleaded guilty to stabbing 62-year-old Mbuyiselo Manona to death at the home of Manona’s lover in Cape Town’s Gugulethu township in June last year.

When officers arrived at the scene they found the 35-year-old ‘busy eating’ Mr Manona’s heart

Mr Manona had reportedly accused Chimboza of having sex with his partner , News24 said, and had attacked the younger man in a fit of rage.

But Chimboza apparently overpowered him – allowing him to commit the horrendous crime.

‘I then took a knife and slit his throat and continued to stab him,’ Chimboza told Cape Town High Court in February.

‘I was so angry that I did not remember how many times I stabbed him or where.’

In a statement read out at an earlier hearing, Chimboza shed more light on the shocking killing.

‘I sit upon him and stabbed him on the chest, tore out his heart and took a knife and then sliced his heart and then I ate his heart,’ he said.

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A businessman in Africa has admitted to a savage act of cannibalism – ripping a man’s heart out and eating it ‘to show he was not gay’, while the victim was still alive.

Andrew Chimboza, 35, told Cape Town police in a statement that he killed Mbuyiselo Manona, 62, in self-defence at the home of a client in the township of Gugulethu after being insulted.

Prosecutor Quawnita Geyer read out the statement during a bail hearing at the Athlone Magistrate’s Court in Cape Town on Wednesday.

He said: ‘In your warning statement you say… “I sit upon him and stabbed him on the chest, tore out his heart and took a knife and then sliced his heart and then I ate his heart.”

“’The reason for me to eat the unknown guy’s heart was to show him that I am not a moffie [gay] and after I finished eating the heart, I realised he was dead.”’

Investigating officer Constable Mphumelelo Yengwa attended the autopsy and reported its horrifying conclusion.

According to The Citizen he said: ‘It was conducted by Dr Allie. Dr Allie told me that the heart is not present in the deceased’s body and therefore, when the heart was taken out, he could see that the deceased was still alive.’

Yengwa told the hearing that the officer who arrested Chimboza at the scene found him chewing raw flesh and that Manona’s neck had been ‘half-eaten’. He added that his chest had a gaping hole in the left side.

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