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Name
  
Elias Xitavhudzi


Role
  
Serial Killer

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Died
  
November 14, 1960, South Africa

Similar
  
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Elias Xitavhudzi was a serial killer who murdered 16 men and women in Atteridgeville, South Africa in the 1950s. Xitavhudzi was a black South African and targeted only white males and females in a strictly-segregated community, his killing spree caused a local sensation during the peak years of South Africa's apartheid regime.

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Prior to his capture, he acquired the nickname "Pangaman" (panga being a local word for the machete with which he mutilated his victims). Following his conviction, he was sentenced to death and hanged on 14 November 1960.

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Xitavhudzi was the second in a series of at least a half-dozen serial killers to have plagued the township of Atteridgeville.

References

Elias Xitavhudzi Wikipedia