Neighbours were alerted to this vicious attack by Manona's tenant who rented a room at the back of his house but only watched in horror through windows.
A witness to the scene said, "When we got there the man kept muttering 'I am the king' and declaring his undying love for the woman. He then cut the heart out and ate it before the police came and took him away,"
Frederick van Wyk, a policespokesman told the Cape Times, "On the scene they found a suspect, a Zimbabwean national, busy eating the heart of a human with a knife and fork,"
The woman reported to the police that her ex Zimbabwean lover paid them a visit and during the conversion, her ex lover gave her money to buy liquor from a local store, not knowing everything was carefully planned.
After arriving, she found her partner, 62-year-old Mbuyiselo Manona, stabbed and laying dead, PoliceVan Wyk said.
Neighbours alerted by the commotion said they had peered through the house windows to see the man cutting out Manona's heart and eating it.
"The whole situation was crazy. We were shouting at him to stop, but he did not listen," one neighbour said.
"Even when the police got here... the guys were scared to go in. They had to call for back-up.
"You can't really blame them - how do you go into a room with someone dripping another person's blood out of his mouth?"
Western Cape deputy police commissioner Sharon Jephta said the motive for the murder was "definitely a love triangle".
Clinical psychologist Ian Meyer described the act of removing Manona's heart as a "primitive symbol of triumph." Such cannibalism does exist but is uncommon in South Africa
The neighbours informed the police that Soloshe's former boyfriend had been hired recently to install aluminium windows at the house.
Soon thereafter, police entered the home and observed the suspect, a man from Zimbabwe, standing over the victim with a knife and fork and mumbling. Additionally, authorities noticed a portion of meat -- victim's heart -- dangling from the side of the man's mouth.
What truly motivated the man to attack and eat another human being remains unknown, but not many people can argue against the shocking nature of the event, which brings to mind bath salts attacks and fears of a zombie apocalypse in recent history.
Some readers suggest the jealous ex-lover killed the woman's new boyfriend and ate his heart because it was a way to reassert his dominance and reclaim his prize -- the girl.
According to TimesLive this is not the first time that Soloshe has been embroiled in a fatal love triangle. Her husband, wealthy Cape Town businessman Bhekizulu Tshabalala, was murdered by her alleged lover, Xolani Hobongwana, in 1996.
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