South African Man Escapes Zombies But Not Police

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police have arrested a suspected fraudster for impersonating the award-winning traditional singer Khulekani Kwakhe "Mgqumeni" Khumalo, who died in 2009.

The unnamed man, who appeared in court in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province on Tuesday, had said he had not died but was kidnapped by a witch doctor who cast a spell on him and imprisoned him in a cave with zombies, local media reported.

Thousands of people in Khumalo's rural eastern home village of Esiggumeni, turned out to see the man at the weekend. Riot police with truncheons and water cannons were deployed to keep the crowd under control.

"I have always been alive," he was quoted as telling the crowd by the Independent Online news site. "I have lost a lot of weight but it is me."

Police said the suspect's fingerprints do not match those of the famed singer. The man also does not have the same scars on his face as Khumalo had.

"Detectives conducting the enquiry were convinced that the matter required criminal investigation," police said in a statement.

(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz)

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[Dodgedriver]

01:44 PM on 02/13/2012

All of the issues in South Africa and this is what makes the news? This is what is really going on in South Africa:

http://southafricaproject.info/

[cmfrtblebbw]

08:32 PM on 02/09/2012

OMG......wa wa wa, they locked me up with zombies.....waaaaa

Just zip it, dude.

[rockysparks]

03:35 PM on 02/08/2012

I'm pretty sure that my sister's fourth husband, Bill the Fourth, is a zombie ...

[madcityy]

12:08 PM on 02/08/2012

this seems a bit oddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

[hlnpayne]

11:26 AM on 02/08/2012

i dont understand why some people wants to be a zombie..thats crazy

[jmamusic]

10:55 AM on 02/08/2012

You know what's worse than all those Zombies???...All those COMMERCIALS and ADS everewhere in AOL including all the videos...ENOUGH with all the Ads...They are more brain-rotting and more disgusting than the zombies...!!!...

[grkow]

10:52 AM on 02/08/2012

I'd rather have a zombie neighbor than one with a untrained, noisy mutt.

[jona817]

09:24 AM on 02/08/2012

I love a good zombie story...even if it is BS.

[bridgeman]

08:07 AM on 02/08/2012

Ouch...nothing worse then catching your cheek in your zipper.

I hate that when it happens...

[Dan Legge]

08:42 AM on 02/08/2012

There are worse things that can be "zippered",remember that scene in "Something about Mary"?

[Shyla22]

09:50 AM on 02/08/2012

"But how'd you get the beans above the frank!??!!"

[Amy Tolliver]

07:29 AM on 02/08/2012

I'm scared of zombies.

[wakohnen]

06:55 AM on 02/08/2012

Good thing he escaped the zombies....

[V-Bottom]

02:29 AM on 02/08/2012

where are they when U need one?