Overview
- Police and paramedics found 19-year-old Nhlamulo Sambo dead with a stab wound to the chest in the New Rest informal settlement on 31 May 2026.
- Investigators say a 15-year-old who was with Sambo told them the pair entered a shack to take goods and that the shack owner chased and stabbed Sambo.
- Detectives arrested a 23-year-old in the Mossel Bay area after pursuing leads and say the suspect will appear in the Mossel Bay Magistrate’s Court once formally charged.
- The victim’s family rejects the police robbery narrative, offers a different sequence of events about where Sambo was taken and killed, and says he may have been targeted for being Tsonga.
- The case is unfolding against recent local attacks on migrants, raising community tensions and leaving motive, forensic findings and formal charges as the next key developments to watch.