The owner of a German-themed restaurant was hacked “into pieces” in front of his terrified partner by a man wielding a machete.
Austrian born Eduard Neumeister was left “unrecognisable” after being hit with "dozens of blows" from the razor sharp bush knife at his country smallholding in rural South Africa.
The 67-year-old and his German partner Margit Riebler, 62, had woken for breakfast at Edi’s Bratwurst Sausage Restaurant and B&B, which they run together in sleepy Balgowan in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN).
When Eduard went outside to feed their two Rottweiler dogs by his workshop he was suddenly struck by a man with a balaclava and knocked to the ground.
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