Twenty-year-old Thandolwenkosi Ndlovu has been arrested by Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) after he brutally murdered youngsters living on the streets of different Zimbabwean towns, dismembering their bodies with glass fragments, severing their genitalia, and taking out their intestines.
Then, before eating it, he would prepare its flesh—either by boiling it or breaking it.
After being detained by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), Thandolwenkosi Ndlovu, 20, told a Harare magistrate that he would plead guilty to all of the accusations made against him.
According to the State-owned tabloid H-Metro, Ndlovu would target the homeless in different parts of Zimbabwe.
Ndlovu, who is thought to have been homeless, allegedly preyed on street kids who were sound sleeping, breaking their skulls, slicing them open, and removing their genitalia with broken bottles.
According to a ZRP statement on Tuesday, Ndlovu, also known as Sauro, would cook the flesh before consuming it. YyÿNdlovu is connected to at least five murder cases, according to Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi, the national spokesperson for the ZRP.
“The suspect who is believed to be living in the streets would target ‘street kids’ who (would) be fast asleep and crush them and open the victims’ stomach and remove genitals and other body parts using empty broken bottles,” Nyathi said.
“The suspect would then boil or braai the human parts on any open fireplace and consume them while in the Harare central business district.”
On Monday, police detectives tracked Ndlovu along the Ritten Row Road in Harare after he allegedly tried to attack another child.
On being arrested, Nyathi said Ndlovu was positively linked to five murder cases that occurred at different spots, including Nelson Mandela Avenue in Harare.
Ndlovu is also linked to three other cases that happened in the city of Bulawayo in 2020, “where he crushed a victim’s head in Bellevue Suburb using a brick after he found him drunk and asleep in a yard” in January 2020.
“In December 2020, he crushed a victim’s head in Makokoba Suburb after finding him asleep on the roadside. He again crushed another victim’s head using stones at Sekhusile shopping center in Nkulumane after finding him sleeping on the pavement. He then fled to Harare,” according to Nyathi.
Additionally, Ndlovu is also facing a charge of attempted murder and has a warrant of arrest for a robbery case that occurred in the Milton Park area of Harare in June 2021.
Nyathi said no evidence has been found linking the murders to ritual killings.
“The police assure the public that inquiries are still being conducted to find out the real motive behind the suspect’s conduct and if he acted alone or not. More details will be revealed soon,” said Nyathi.
