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Cape Town - The Humansdorp regional court in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province has sentenced a man to seven years direct imprisonment after he caused the death of another person by hitting him with a beer bottle in St Francis Bay.
Dumisani Sotafile, 41, caused the death of 39-year-old Silulami Mhlanga in June after the pair argued at a local tavern, provincial police spokesperson Sergeant Majola Nkohli said in a statement late on Monday. The men were drinking at the tavern in Sea Vista in St Francis Bay at about 2pm when an argument broke out between them which ended with Sotafile striking Mhlanga on the head with the bottle. Mhlanga collapsed at the scene and was taken back to his home, where he started bleeding through his nose and subsequently died.
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